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copper fish-hooks, one with line attached, a bone fish-hook with line and stone sinker, a fishing line, three spines of cactus (?), one with a head of plaited rushes, a spindle with whorl and cord attached, two wooden combs (?), two toy mattresses made of twigs, a Pandean pipe of small reeds, pulverized mineral substance taken from the blanket of a female mummy, and three fragments of pottery.

[[underline]] S.H. Drew Wanganui, New Zealand. [[/underline]] Seventy-five flakes of obsidian and chert from a Maori Kitchen-midden, a fish-hook made of shell and bone fragments of Moa-bones, and a plaster-cast of a nephrite idol.

[[underline]] James F. Johnson, Holywood, County Down, Ireland. [[/underline]] _ Collection of prehistoric antiquities from County Down:  Rude stone celts or axes, pounding or crushing-