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S 53541. [[^111]]

[[underlined]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during April, 1886.[[/underlined]]

Number of specimens entered in Record-Book: for exhibition 165; for exchange 17; for storage 14; in Loan Book 1; 21 sketches made.

[[underlined]] Specification of Additions. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Accession 17278. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] John W. Brock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [[/underlined]] --- An unsmoothed potstone bowl, found about 8 feet below the surface on the west bank of the Potomac River, six miles above Georgetown, in Fairfax County, Virginia.

[[underlined]] Accession 17297. [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] A.F. Wooster, Norfolk, Connecticut. [[/underlined]] --- A notched axe from Norfolk and a grooved one from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

[[underlined]] Accession 17302. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] A.F. Berlin, Allentown, Pennsylvania.---[[/underlined]] Eight arrow-head found on Lehigh Island in the Lehigh River near Allentown.

[[underlined]] Accession 14666. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] R.E.C. Stearns, U.S. National Museum. [[/underlined]] --- Seven identified shells from the shell-heaps of Omori, Japan. These specimens belong to a collection received in this Department in November, 1884, and have been given the same accession-number.

[[underlined]] Accession 17307 [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] Dr. J.M. Spainhour, Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina.[[/underlined]] --- An egg-shaped specimen from Caldwell County.

[[underlined]] Accession 17307. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Dr. O.B. Reese, U.S. Geological Survey.[[/underlined]] ---Eleven arrowheads from Grainger County, Tennessee.

[[underlined]] Accession 17329. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] G.E. Sellers, Bowlesville, Gallatin County, Illinois. [[/underlined]] ---