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[[stamped]] 35088 [[/stamped]] [[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during April, 1884 [[/underline]] Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 717, for exchange 2, for storage 2. [[underling]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]] [[underline]] E.L. Brown, Durand, Papin County, Wisconsin.- [[/underline]] Collection from the vicinity of Durand: 1 flake, 9 scrapers, 1 pitted stone, 2 fragments of chipped implements, and 1 fragment of pottery; also 1 copper bead from a mound on Rice Lake (probably in Papin County), 10 specs. for exhibition, 2 for storage. [[underline]] J.M. Spainhour, Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina:- [[/underline]] 2 photographs of rock inscriptions in New Mexico and Arizona. [[underline]] R.E.C. Stearns, Berkeley, Alameda County, California.- [[/underline]] Collection 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: 195 specimens, embracing 9 determined species. [[underline]] Dr. H.C. Yarrow, Washington, D.C.- [[/underline]] Collection from a shell-heap on Harkens Island, 6 miles from Fort Macon, North Carolina: 1 flake, 1 hammer-stone, 16 fragments of bones of quadrupeds and fishes, and 20 shells (7 species, determined); 38 specs. for exhibition. [[underline]] Dr. E. Palmer, National Museum.- [[/underline]] Collection from shell-heaps on Goose, Hog, and Long Islands, Casco Bay, Maine, and from Wood's Holl, Massachusetts: Chips and flakes,