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DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY.

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Report for the month ending JANUARY 31,1892.

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Number of specimens entered in Museum Catalogue 443. Four entries in Loan Book.

[[underline]]SPECIFICATION OF ADDITIONS.[[/underline]]

Acc. 25232---DeWitt Webb, M.D., St. Augustine, Florida---Large Collection from Shell Mounds near St. Augustine, Florida. Perfor ted shells (club-heads?), shells used as food, shell implements - scrapers, hatchets, perforators, sinkers, spoons, ladles, etc.,- Bone implements, stone mortars and pestles, bones of fishes, animals and birds, usuallu [[faint "y" overlaid on final "u"]] found mingled with the shells in the mounds. Fragments of pottery and fragments of a human skull and bones;  443 specimens.

This collection will be described in a separate paper.