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Ky. April report
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[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during April, 1885. [[/underline]]

Number of specimens entered in Record book, 110 for exhibition, 12 for exchange, 7 for storage, in Loan Book 1, 16 sketches made.
[[underline]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]]
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] Lieut. G.M. Stoney, U.S. Navy._ [[/underline]] 3 leaf-shaped implements, Alaska.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] G.M. Clemens, Midway, Boone County, Missouri._ [[/underline]] Collection from Boone County: 2 chipped celts and 15 arrow and spear-heads; 9 specimens for exhibition, 8 for exchange.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] M.L. Guesde, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe Island._ [[/underline]] 4 celts and 17 notched axes (mostly broken) from Guadeloupe Island.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] Trocadero Museum, Paris, through Dr. Hamy._ [[/underline]] A cast of a stone celt and handle in one piece. Original from the Island of Hayti.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] W.C. Jirdinston, through Prof. F.W. Clark, U.S. National Museum._[[/underline]] 2 celts, a boat-shaped object and fragments of spear-heads, from Ashe County, North Carolina; 3 specimens for exhibition.
[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] Jos. Willcox, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania._[[/underline]] Flakes and rude implements of palaeolithic type from the surface of a mound in Hernando County, and 

Transcription Notes:
Pointe-�Pitre should be Pointe-�P�re.