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[[image - embossed 3 mast sailing ship]]

monial weapon of mottled serpentine, ploughed up in a field in Madison County, Virginia.  A very good specimen.

[[underlined]]John E. Younglove, Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. [[/underlined]]- Large serrated flint implement and sculpture of chlorite (bat-shaped).  Casts were taken in the National Museum, and the originals handed to registrar, September 12th.

[[underlined]]Capt. A. Briand, Havre, France. [[/underlined]]- 1 hammer-stone and 16 flint weapons.  Elbeuf, Seine - Inferieure, France.  He expects some North American stone implements in exchange.  The collections of Dr. Bransford and Mr. Keith, mentioned in the reports for July and December of last year, were removed from the room formerly occupied by Dr. Bransford to Case 62. Some of the large broken vessels sent by Mr. Nutting were restored.

I still devote the greater part of my time to my work on prehistoric fishing. The interruption of the printing gives me a chance to enlarge the portion relating to America, more especially the section treating of shell-deposit. I have received several original reports of explorers of shell-heaps, and expect a few more. I am now engaged in writing an appendix relating to fishing-implements and fish-representations discovered south of Mexico.

Smithsonian Institution, 
Oct. 1, 1883.
Professor J. F. Baird.

C. Rau
Curator