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^[[111]] S 52576. [[underlined]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U. S. National Museum, during March, 1886. [[/underlined]] The following specimens were entered in the Loan-Book: A celt with a cross-groove on each side, from Centreville, Richmond County, Tennessee,---T. S. Easley; an unfinished stone pipe, from Mercer County, Kentucky,---R. W. Mercer; 3 chipped flint implements of unusual form and size, from Steuart and Humphreys Counties, Tennessee,---Edward D. Hicks. The celt and flint implements are retained for the purpose of having casts taken, and the pipe, having been examined and reported on, was returned. No specimens having been sent to this Department for entry in the Record-Book during the month, the time was almost exclusively devoted to work in the hall. The following collections have been placed on exhibition during this month:- [[underlined]] From the Bureau of Ethnology. West Virginia. [[/underlined]] Grave-mounds on Smith's farm, Kanawha County (P.W. Norris). Surface, Kanawha County (P. W. Norris). [[underlined]] Ohio. [[/underlined]] Grave-mound, Mount Vernon, Knox County (J. D. Middleton). "Staat's Mound," Knox County (J. D. Middleton). "Hammond Mound," Knox County (J. D. Middleton). Surface, Butler County (J. P. Rogan). [[underlined]] Tennessee. [[/underlined]] Mound, McGee Farm, Monroe County (J. W. Emmert). "Citico Mound," McSpadden's farm, Monroe County (J. W. Emmert). Mound, J. L. Bacon's farm near Mountainville, Monroe