_The crayfish (?)._--In Fig. 40 we have a fine specimen, intended apparently to represent a crayfish or some similar crustacean form. The head is supplied with complicated yet graceful antenna-like appendages, made of wire neatly coiled and welded together by pressure or hammering. The eyes are globular and are encircled by the ends of a double loop of wire which extends along the back and incloses a line of minute balls or nodes. The peculiar wings and tail will be best understood by referring to the illustration. The foundation metal is much corroded, being dark and rotten, and the plating of reddish gold seems to have been coated with a thin film of yellow gold. The profile view gives a good idea of the thickness of the metal and of the relief of the parts. Two rings or loops of doubled wire are attached to the extreme end of the nose and a heavy ring for suspending is fixed to the under side of the head. _Miscellaneous._--Gold, pure and in the usual alloys, was also used in the manufacture of other articles, such as bells, beads, disks, balls, rings, whistles, thimble shaped objects, and amulets of varied shapes. Bells are more generally made of bronze, because, perhaps, of its greater degree of resonance. Thin plates, or rather circular sheets, of gold leaf are numerous. One mentioned by Bollaert was 7¼ inches in diameter. They are plain or crimped about the margins, indented in various ways, and sometimes perforated, apparently for suspension or attachment. Merritt mentions examples having holes which showed evidences of wear upon one side only, indicating attachment in a fixed position to some object or to some part of the costume. But one example is at hand, a thin sheet, three inches in diameter and crimped or indented neatly about the margin. Its thickness is about that of ordinary tinfoil. [Footnote 14: Herrera: Hist. America, Vol. VI, p. 369.] [Footnote 15: Herrera: Hist. America, Vol. III, p. 287.] [Footnote 16: Mr. Hawes’s letter answering questions about Chiriqui, read by Mr. Davis before the American Ethnological Society, April 17, 1860.] [Footnote 17: Nadaillac: Prehistoric America, p. 450.] [Footnote 18: Bollaert: Ethnological and Other Researches in New Granada, &c.] [Footnote 19: Bollaert: Antiquarian Researches in New Granada, plate facing p. 31.] [Footnote 20: A. De Zeltner: Notes sur les sépultures indiennes du département de Chiriqui.] BRONZE.