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2. [[underlined]] Accession Number 16480. John B. Wiggins, Chula, Amelia County, Virginia. [[/underlined]]---Earth and charcoal containing pieces of mica, and a fragment of the stone constituting the material of the mauls used in obtaining mica by aboriginal workmen. I take the following from the letter of Mr. Wiggins: "On examination I find that for acres around the 'John McCormick Mine,' Amelia County, Virginia, the ground has been dug over and the surface mica extracted. The method employed in breaking the large quartz rocks containing mica, was by building fires and heating them---afterwards using heavy mauls made of the same material as the fragment of stone enclosed. I beg to say that the early workers of these mines labored under great difficulties in obtaining the mica, and it must have been very highly prized by them." [[underlined]] Accession Number 15787. B. F. Harrison, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia. [[/underlined]]---A cast of a pipe of banded slate, in the form of a grotesque human face. The original, found in Jefferson County, was loaned to the U. S. National Museum by Mr. Harrison, for the purpose of having a cast made, and was returned to the Registrar October 27th, 1885. [[underlined]] Accession Number 16673. Alexander C. Black, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C. [[/underlined]]---A leaf-shaped implement and 11 spear-heads from Randolph County, Indiana; 5 specimens for exhibition; 7 for exchange. The early part of the month was spent in marking a considerable portion of the 1178 specimens from Flint Ridge, Ohio, sent by Mr. Ky. Q. Smith. They had been entered and partly marked in the preceding month. The most characteristic of these specimens were selected, systematically arranged, and put on exhibition