Gifts to Peabody Museum.

The Peabody Museum has recently received two rare boxes of birch bark, the gifts of Mrs. E. J. McNeil and Miss N. M. Betteley of Cambridge. The boxes are a hundred years old, and were made by Indians. They are ornamented with split spruce and with porcupine quills worked in colors. The Museum now owns five such boxes, and only one other museum in the country has any specimens of this rare Indian workmanship.