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[[stamp]]S 25549[[/stamp]]

[[underlined]]Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during April, 1883.[[/underlined]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 328, for exchange 122, for storage 33, in Loan Book 1.  Sketches made, 57.

[[underlined]]Specification of Additions.[[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]Dr. J. W. Kales, Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York.-[[/underlined]]8 arrow-heads, Union Springs.

[[underlined]]W. R. Lighton, Ottumwa, Wapellow County, Iowa.-[[/underlined]] 1 small terra-cotta head from a tomb in Mexico.

[[underlined]]Frank Burns, Blountsville, Blount County, Alabama.-[[/underlined]] 1 large stone mortar, found 10 miles west of Blount's Springs.

[[underlined]]Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.-[[/underlined]] 1 cast of a stone image of potstone, found in Bartow County, Georgia; 1 cast of a stone image of sandstone, representing a woman, locality where found not yet known; 1 cast of a smoothing-tool with handle, made of clay, from North Nashville.  The originals were loaned, with other relics, by the above-named society, and the casts made in the National Museum.
Collection returned April 13, 1883.

[[underlined]]Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.-[[/underlined]]1 cast of a fish carved from slate; original found near Ipswich, Massachusetts.

[[underlined]]F. G. Galbraith, Bainbridge, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.-[[/underlined]]

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