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[[image - embossed 3 mast sailing ship]] ^[[F]] [[stamped]]S 31588[[/stamped]] [[underlined]]Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during December, 1883.[[/underlined]] Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 365; for exchange 183; for storage 62; in Loan Book 5. - 65 sketches made. [[underlined]]Specification of Additions[[/underlined]] [[underlined]]C. L. McKay (deceased)._[[underlined]] Collection from Alaska: 6 cutting tools (slate), 4 spear-heads, 4 chipped celts, 1 chisel(?), 2 stone adzes (one very fine), 1 piece of worked argillite, 2 oval pebbles, one with polished cavity, 1 unfinished bone socket for harpoon-head, and 2 clay vessels, 23 specimens. [[underlined]]Samuel Ullman Natchez, Mississippi._[[/underlined]] Collection from Franklin County, Mississippi: 2 cutting tools and 29 arrow-heads, 19 specimens for exhibition, 12 for exchange. [[underlined]]J. F. Kummerfeld, Long Grove, Scott County, Iowa._[[/underlined]] 1 grooved axe (fine) ^[[from]] Pottawattamie County, Iowa. [[underlined]]R. W. Mercer, Cincinnati, Ohio._[[/underlined]] 1 arrow-head with a single barb and 1 scraping tool(?) from Mason County, West Virginia. [[underlined]]F. A. Ober, Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts._[[/underlined]] 1 painted clay vessel from the Casas Grandes, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. [[underlined]]C. T. Wiltheiss, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio._[[/underlined]] 1 cast of an animal-shaped pipe. The original was found 3 miles from Piqua near the Miami River, having been washed