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10. GIVE A LIST OF PAPERS PUBLISHED DURING THE YEAR BY YOURSELF, YOUR OFFICIAL ASSOCIATES AND COLLABORATORS, SO FAR AS THE SAME ARE BASED UPON MUSEUM MATERIAL, EACH NOTICE FOR THE BIBLOGRAPHY SHOULS [[sic SHOULD]] BE ACCOMPANIED WITH A BRIEF ABSTRACT OF THE PAPER.

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[[^1]] THOMAS WILSON. (The [[underline]] Archaeologist [[/underline]]).

[[underline]]Primitive Industry.[[/underline]] Vol. II, No. 7, July, 1894, pp. 200-204; No. 8, August 1894, pp. 238-246. [[^&c. below.]] Also printed in Smithsonian Report for 1892 pp. 521-534.

Describes earliest objects of primitive industry found in Europe, and compares them with those found in America. Examines Dr. Abbott’s finds of similar implements in the gravels of the river-terrace at Trenton, N. J. and compares them with the infructuous searches of other persons in the same terrace[[strikethrough]]s [[/strikethrough]]. Shows that by reason of the scarcity of the implements, the failure of an observer to find them in one locality is no evidence that another observer may not have found them in another locality. Cites similar experiences of the best observers in France and England. Many implements of similar form and manufacture have been found in nearly every State of the United States, though practically all on the surface. This does not, however, prove the existence of Paleolithic Man in America but, as says M. Boule, is "an argument in favor of their antiquity which will greatly impress prehistoric archaeologists of experience." It will serve a good purpose in stimulating further investigation and prevent the formation of conclusions until the search has been exhausted and the evidence all in.

[[^2]] [[underline]]Polished Stone Hatchets.[[/underline]] Vol. III, No. 1, January, 1895, pp. 8-14; No. 2, February, 1895 pp. 43-50.

The Polished Stone Hatchet is, more than any other implement or tool, the representative of man's culture during the Neolithic or Polished Stone Age. Man in this stage spread himself by migration practically over the world, and in so doing carried with him this, more than any other, implement. While the Paleolithic Age of [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] prehistoric man is called the Chipped Stone Age, yet the art of chipping stone cutting-implements did not cease with it, but was to some extent carried into the Neolithic or Polished Stone Age. Some implements thus chipped were ground to a sharp edge or point, while others were left unground. The tools used were ham-