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[[underlined]]Dr.W.W.Oglesby, Fossil, Wasco County, Oregon. [[/underlined]]-One very fine sword-shaped stone club, found imbedded in the roots of a fir-tree (supposed to be 300 years old), near Mary's Park, Wasco County. 

[[underlined]]A.Fairhurst, Lexington, Kentucky [[/underlined]]-Collection from the vicinity of Lexington: Rude and leaf-shaped implements, cutting tools, perforators, arrow and spear-heads, 1 very fine celt of greenish jasper (chipped and polished), polished celts, 1 celt-gouge of syenite (the best object of this class thus far acquired), 1 hematite muller, 1 discoidal stone, 1 ceremonial object (partly drilled), and 1 pipe.

[[underlined]]Prof. S.F. Baird.[[/underlined]]-Collection from shell-heaps on the Bay of Fundy: Chips and flakes of flint, quartzite, lydite, etc., rude arrow-heads, fragments of pottery, vertebrae and spines of fishes, bones of birds, bones and teeth of the seal, beaver, deer, caribou, moose, mink, otter, black bear, and dog; bones split for the extraction of the marrow, and shells (3 species, determined) of which the heaps are composed. This collection is referred to in Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, Vol.4 p.292 etc.