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[[underline]] Dr. J. C. Neal, Archer, Alachua County, Florida, through W.H. Dall, U.S. National Museum. [[/underline]] A stone carving representing a bird's head from Wabash County, and 3 stone pipes, a ceremonial weapon, and a trowel-shaped object of stone from the neighborhood of Marion, Grant County.

[[underline]] George Spangler, Madison, Jefferson County. [[/underline]] Two very fine ceremonial objects. One, prismatic, with a longitudinal perforation, was found on Cooper's Bar in the Ohio River, 3 miles below Madison, and the other, in the shape of a double hatchet, was ploughed up on a farm near Big Creek, Jefferson County, about 12 miles northwest of Madison.

[[underline]] J. R. Nissley, Mansfield, Richmond ^[[County]] Ohio. [[/underline]] _A large grooved stone implement of unknown use, ^[[(sinker?]] found 1 1/2 miles east of Santa Fe, Miami County, and a ceremonial or ornamental object made of cannel-coal, narrow in the middle and terminaling at both ends in semilunar-shaped expansions. The narrow part is perforated with two holes. Length nine inches.

According to Mr. Nissley, "the specimen was discovered last summer (1884), by men who were prospecting for gravel suitable for a road, on the farm of F. A. Crisler, Greene Township, Jay County. Mr. Crisler and others informed me that a plain cylinder-shaped pipe (?), made