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S 47830.

[[underlined]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during September, 1885. [[/underlined]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 1590, for exchange 9; in Loan Book 3; 22 sketches made.

[[underlined]] Specification of Additions. J.M. Spainhour, Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. [[/underlined]]---A horse's tooth found on a hill in a virgin forest near Lenoir. With it were other teeth of the same kind, several pieces of Indian pottery, and some water-worn pebbles.

[[underlined]] E. Amsden, Yokohama, Japan. [[/underlined]]---Photographs of flint implements, etc. The originals were found at Hakodate (Hakodadi), Island of Jesso.  The collection embraces 10 small plates, showing a great variety of forms.

[[underlined]] D.S. Carvin, Lyons, Fulton County, Ohio. [[/underlined]]---A platform-pipe, made of the mottled stone which forms the material of many of the Squier and Davis pipes now in England. Locality where found not yet ascertained.

[[underlined]] E.W. Nelson, Springerville, Apache County, Arizona. [[/underlined]]---Collection from ruins (not specified in regard to construction) on the Upper San Francisco River, New Mexico: Hammer-stones, grinding-stones, pestles, grooved axes, paint-mortars and mullers, stone picks (?), tanning-stones (?), one half of a stone disc, fragments of a stone plate with many bi-conical perforations, a stone carving representing the head of a coyote (?), a stone carving in the shape of an owl, stone tubes and pipes, a small arrow-head, 24 small turquoise pendants (flat, pierced) and a number of fragments of turquoise pendants, bone perforators, fragments of a bone spearhead, a bear's claw, shell beads and ornaments, a perforated seashell, a small brass bell (European), a nugget of native copper, a