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^[[ R [[checkmark]] ]] [[strikethrough]]GBY[[/strikethrough]] [[underline]]Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U. S. National Museum, during September, 1882[[/underline]] Number of specimens entered in Record book: for exhibition, 253, for exchange, none, for storage, 10. No entries in Loan Book, 118 sketches made. [[underline]]Specification of Additions.[[/underline]] [[underline]]A. W. Mercer, Cincinnati, Ohio._[[/underline]] 1 rubbing stone from a mound in Butler County, Ohio. [[underline]] M. Tandy, Dallas City, Hancock County, Illinois._[[/underline]] Collection from a mound and stone grave in Henderson County, 1 1/2 miles from Dallas City: _ 89 specs., consisting of arrow and spear-heads, perforators of stone and bone, hematite and stone sinkers, leaf-shaped implements, paint-stones, marine shells, shell beads and gorgets, fragments of pierced tablets, pierced teeth of animals, and [[underline]] 1 pearl bead[[/underline]]; 1 human skull with flint perforator [[underline]]driven[[/underline]], not [[underline]] shot[[/underline]], through the left temple. [[underline]] L. S. Bliss, Dallas City._[[/underline]] 1 stone pipe from the mound in Henderson County. [[underline]] Henry Gillbreth, Dallas City._[[/underline]] 39 specs. from the same mound, consisting of rude implements, scrapers, arrow and spear-heads, 1 hematite celt, 1 stone celt, and fragments of large jasper pebble. [[underline]]Louis Bierman, Dallas City._[[/underline]] 20 specs., surface finds
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