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[upper left embossed 3 mast sailing ship; written diagonally in pencil near "file"] [middle upper of page - squiggle] [upper right corner bates-like stamp blue ink "S 36584" [handwritten cursive script;white lined paper, black ink] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during June, 1884. [above text underlined] [stamped diagonally on beginning of above 2 lines in grey ink "G Brown Gouder"] Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 150, for exchange 6, for storage 4; in Loan Book 11, 24 sketches made. Specification of Additions [above text underlined and indented] B.F. Koons, Mansfield Tolland County, Connecticut. - [above text underlined] Square slab of granite with mortar-cavity, cut of from rock in situ [in situ underlined], Mansfield. A very interesting piece. Lieutenant J.A. Slocum, U.S. Revenue-cutter Mosswood. - [above text underlined] Collection from shell-heap on on Rogue's Island, Maine: Rude chipped implement, club-shaped implement, fragments of arrow-heads and pottery, bones of deer, caribou, moose, and mink, pieces of worked bone, split ones, and shells (4 determined species). 56 specimens. W.M. Clark, Nashville, Tennessee. - [above text underlined] Collection from different localities in Tennessee: Rude chipped implements, leaf-shaped implements (one of obsidian, very fine), 1 scraper, arrow and spear-heads, chipped celt-gouge with polished cutting edge, 2 large chipped digging-tools,1 pitted stone, 1 grinding-stone, polished celts, grooved axes, 1 pestle, 1 cylindrical crushing-implement, 1 hematite sinker, pierced tablets, carved stone pipes (some very good), 1 clay pipe, natural formation resembling worked stone, fragment of large shells, shell beads, encrinites, clay vessels (3 of them entire), fragments