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[[underline]] Brief statement concerning the operations in the Department of Antiquities, United States National Museum, during the six months ending June 30, 1885. [[/underline]]

In the above-mentioned months many valuable relics have been received and placed on exhibition in accordance with the plan indicated in my reports for the years 1882 and 1883.  The number of specimens received amounted to 952, or which 884 were exhibited, 47 added to the exchange series, and 21 put away, being in a fragmentary state, and of no scientific value.  Quite a number of objects of archaeological interest were loaned to this Department for examination, and many of them reproduced in plaster of Paris.  Much time was spent in assorting and preparing for exhibition a number of collections transferred to this Department from the Bureau of Ethnology.  These collections, mostly from West Virginia (Preston and Kanawha Counties; North Carolina (Caldwell and Montgomery Counties); Tennessee (Hardin, McMinn, Sevier, Cocke, Polk, Bledsoe and Jefferson Counties); South Carolina (Chester County); Georgia (Bartow and Early Counties); Alabama (Elmore, Talladega and Lauderdale Counties); Arkansas (Lonoke, Hot Spring, Poinsett, Crittenden, Craighead, Arkansas, Mississippi and Ouachita Counties); Texas (Red River and Bowie Counties); Ohio (Warren County); Illinois (Union and Jackson Counties) and Wisconsin (Vernon and Crawford Counties).

Among other collections received within the half year may be