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[upper right embossed 3 mast sailing ship] [handwritten cursive script; white lined paper, black ink] 17 spear-heads, 38 arrow-heads, 1 very fine celt of greenish jasper (chipped and polished), 5 ground celts, 1 celt-gouge of syenite (the best object of this class thus far acquired), 1 hematite muller, 1 discoidal stone, 1 ceremonial object (poorly drilled), and 1 pipe. - 89 specimens for exhibition, 15 for exchange. Professor S.F. Baird. - [above text underlined] Collection from shell-heaps on the Bay of Fundy: Chips and flake of flint, quartzite, lydite, etc., 1 trimmed flake, 1 rude arrow-head, 1 fragment of a celt, 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 (2 species, determined). - 296 specimens, all for exhibition. C. McKinley, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. - [above text underlined] Small collection from an Indian burial-place near Birmingham: Fragments of jasper, chalcedony, etc., arrow-heads, fragments of pottery, and 1 piece of the ["the" inserted] lime in which the skeleton was imbedded. - 18 specimens for exhibition. A.H. Kohn, Prosperity, Newberry County, South Carolina. - [above text underlined] 1 flint scraper from an Indian quarry; and 4 arrow-heads from the surface of a mound near Prosperity. - 5 specimens for exhibition. Howard Shriver, Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia. - [above text underlined] 1 fragment of an arrow-head from the vicinity of Wytheville. - for storage.