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[[Chfile?]] Am rep 1884 K7 upper [[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during the year 1884.[[underline]] 1. [[underline]] Review of important Additions.[[underline]] [[underline]]John J. McLean, Cape Mendocino, Humboldt County, California.[[underline]]_ Collection from shell-heaps near Cape Mendocino: Stone chips and flakes, rude and leaf shaped implements, scrapers, rude arrow-heads, shells of different species,(all determined), plates of [[underline]] Cryptochiton Stelleri [[underline]], and of [[underline]]Chiton[[underline]] (species undertermined) [[underline]]Echinus[[underline]] shell, and teeth of canine animals. [[underline]]R.E.C.Stearns, U.S.National Museum.[[underline]]_ Collections received at different times during the year: Mortars and pestles from Placer County, California._ [[9?]] species of shells from shell-heaps at Rocky Point and Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, and from Way Keys (one of the Cedar Keys group of islands), Florida. _ 8 casts of a stone pestle (metamorphic sandstone), found on Santa Cruz Island, California. _ 8 casts of a stone pestle found at an