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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 I assorting and preparing for exhibition a number of collections transferred to this Department from the Bureau of Ethnology.  These collection, mostly obtained by mound-explorations, are derived 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

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Same as page 18 (typewritten) in this Project, with one minor sentence change before West Virginia and ending earlier in the text.