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

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Number of specimens entered in Record Book for exhibition 148, for exchange 19, and for storage 20. Fifteen sketches were made.

[[underline]] Specifications of Additions.
Accession 16736.
Dr. Charles Rau, U.S. National Museum. [[/underline]] ---Ten argillite implements, found nine feet below the surface in a gravel-bed at Trenton, New Jersey. These specimens were presented to the above-named by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, of Trenton, the discoverer of drift-implements in that locality.

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Accession 14639.
John H. Lemon, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. [[/underline]] ---Collection from Floyd, Harrison and Crawford Counties, Indiana: Rude and leaf-shaped implements, cutting-tools, scrapers, perforators, arrow and spear-heads, celts, grooved axes, pestles, and fragments of pierced tablets.---98 specimens for exhibition, 30 for exchange.

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Accession 16729.
B.W. Evermann, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. [[/underline]] --- Collection from Carroll and Howard Counties, Indiana: Leaf-shaped implements, arrow and spear-heads, a celt, a large grooved axe, a grooved maul, a pestle, pierced tablets, one half of a ceremonial weapon, a bird-shaped object, and a natural formation of clay-iron stone, from Carroll County, and a large pendant of banded slate (shaped like a padlock), from Howard County.---19 specimens for exhibition, 19 for exchange, and 20 for storage.