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U.S. Fish Commission, Washington, D.C.  Archaeological specimens from Patagonia, Straits of Magellan, Lower California and California, collected by the Fish Commission Steamer Albatross during her voyage from Virginia to California in 1887-'88.
The localities from which the specimens were obtained are as follows:---Otter, Smith Channel, Patagonia---Port Churruca, Elizabeth Island, Saint Martas Island, and Gregory Bay, Straits of Magellan---Pichilingue Bay, Gulf of California, Margarita Island, Lower California, and San Celmente Island, California.
The greatest number of objects collected at any one point was at the Kitchen Midden, Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan.
The stone implements of flint and obsidian number 445 and include hammers, rude implements of paleolithic type, leaf-shaped implements, scrapers or knives, arrow and spear-points, pitted stones, pebbles slightly worked, and a large number