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arrow and spear-heads, 48 specs. for exchange; fragments of arrow and spear-heads, 26 specs. for storage. The collection from mounds near Naples, Illinois, sent by Judge John G. Henderson, and also the one from ash-pits and burial-places near Madisonville, Ohio, contributed by Messrs. Metz, Langdon, and Low, have been prepared for exhibition, and placed in Case 80. 

My time was taen up by literary work and superintending the execution of drawings designed to illustrate my forthcoming publication. 

Smithsonian Institution, 
November 1, 1882. 

C. Rau
Curator

Professor T.F. Baird.