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S 51625

[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U. S. National Museum, during February 1886.

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Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 57, for storage 24; in Loan Book 4.

[[underline]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Accession 17145. [[/underline]] [[underline]] W. C. Jirdonson, through W. S. Yeates, U. S. National [[/underline]]
Museum.---A stone pipe of recent manufacture from Ashe County, North Carolina.

[[underline]] Accession 17157. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] A. F. Davidson, Croston, Marion County, Oregon. [[/underline]]---Two obsidian arrow-heads from Marion County.

[[underline]] Accession 17135. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Dr. J. B. Holder, American Museum of Natural History, New York. [[/underline]]--- A double-bladed ceremonial axe of coarse-grained syenite, found in 1873 at Hudson City, Hudson County, New Jersey, seven feet below the ground.  The original was loaned for casting by Dr. Holder and will be returned in a few days.

[[underline]] Accession 17094. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] L. Charpy, Museum of Annecy, Haute Savoie, France. [[/underline]]--- A corn-crusher from Concise and a celt from Auvernier, Lake of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.  Lacustrine specimens.

[[underline]] Accession 16691. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] G. H. Carlton, Pima, Graham County, Arizona. [[/underline]]---Collection from Graham County: A flake of chalcedony, 11 arrow-heads, 2 hammer-stones, 3 grooved axes, 2 mauls, 7 rubbing-stones, a metate, a pestle, a small mortar, 2 arrow-shaft-straighteners, a fragment, a stone implement of unknown use, a polishing-stone, a pebble for