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[[underline]] Kentucky. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] J.B. Vickers, Lyonia, Hancock County. [[/underline]] A leaf-shaped implement, a trimmed flake, a scraper, arrow and spear-heads, a pestle, 2 celts, and 3 grooved axes from fields and rock-shelters near Panther Creek, Hancock County.

[[underline]] W.M. Linney, Harrodsburg, Mercer County. [[/underline]] A cast of a flint cutter, the original from Central Kentucky. The cast was taken in the National Museum.

[[underline]] A.E. Douglass, New York City. [[/underline]] A cast of a large pipe of greenish steatitic material, not unlike serpentine. It presents the form of a tube surmounted by the figure of a duck. The original was found in a mound at Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky. The cast was made in the National Museum.

This very fine specimen is described and figured in Dr. Hamy's [[underline]] Revue d'Ethnographie [[/underline]], Vol. III. p. 60 etc.

[[underline]] Tennessee. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] W.M. Linney, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky. [[/underline]] A cast of a discoidal stone of unusual size (nearly 7 1/2 inches in diameter); the original from Eastern Tennessee. The cast was taken in the National Museum.