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^[[ [[underlined]] 17UUU [[/underlined]] ]] ^[[ [[in red]] 84 [[/in red]]]] ^[[ [[encircled]] 25 [[/encircled]] ]] [[strikethrough and red double underlined]] Reporting the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during the year 1883. [[/strikethrough and red double underlined]] [[double underlined in red]] Important Additions during 1883. [[/double underlined in red]] ^[[/Brev. S.C.]] [[symbol for paragraph]] [[underlined in red]] R.E.C. Stearns, Berkeley, Alameda County, California.--- [[/underlined in red]] Collection of pestles, mortars, and baking-stones, from Yuba, Nevada, Placer, and Alameda Counties, California. [[symbol for paragraph]] [[underlined in red]] James Harrington, City of Mexico.---[[/underlined in red]] ^[[1 m]][[encircled]] 3 [[/encircled]] stone sculptures, 1 (monkey-shaped), from Tamiahua, and the others (human figures), from Tampico, Mexico. Very fine specimens, and a valuable addition to the collection of Mexican antiquities. [[underlined in red]] J.H. Rivett-Carnac, Allahabad, India--- [[/underlined in red]] ^[[1 m]] Collection of nuclei and flakes of flint and chalcedony, and chipped and polished celts, from the Banda District, [[encircled]] N.W. [[/encircled]] Provinces of India. Two of the celts were sent through Dr. E. Meyer, Wilkesbarre, [[strikethrough]] Pennsylvania. [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] Albert I. Phelps, Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Maine.--- [[/underlined in red]] Collection of flint flakes, rude implements, arrow-heads, bone implements, fragments of pottery, etc., from shell-heaps in Lincoln County. [[underlined in red]] U.S. Fish Commission, assisted by Willard Nye Jr.--- [[/underlined in red]] Collection of rude implements, cutting tools, perforators, scrapers, arrow-heads, sinkers, bone implements, fragments of pottery, etc., from Menemsha Pond, and Roaring Brook, Martha's Vineyard, and from Nonamesset Island, and Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. This collection as exhibited, represents the different types of specimens mentioned, and is of special interest as showing the stages in the manufacture of stone implements in those localities.