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[[upper right]] S 54364. [[/upper right]] [[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during May, 1886. [[/underline]] Number of specimens entered in Record-Book, for exhibition 175; in Loan-Book 1 entry comprising 10 specimens. [[underline]] Specification of Additions. Accessions 17399 and 17400. U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross [[/underline]].---Collections from the Bahama Islands: Two polished celts from Abaco Island; a polished celt, a rubbing-stone and a fragment of worked bone from New Providence Island; 3 polished celts, a polished chisel, a small drilled pendant (perhaps of jadeite), 70 fragmentary human bones, embracing skull and jaw-bones and other parts of skeletons, and 15 pieces of smooth pottery from Watling Island; 95 specimens in all. The collectors were Thomas Lee and Willard Nye, Jr. [[underline]] Accesion 17370. W.H.H. Chambers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [[/underline]].---Twelve arrow-head-shaped objects from a deposit of three hundred, found on the farm of George Moore, south bank of Rancocas Creek near Lumberton, Burlington County, New Jersey. [[underline]] Accession 17374. T.W. Castelman, "Mound Place," Saint Joseph, Tensas County, Louisiana. [[/underline]]---A pendant-shaped grooved sinker, ploughed up at the base of a mound in the neighborhood of Saint Joseph. [[underline]] Accession 17396. Dr. J.C. Neal, Archer, Alachua County, Florida [[/underline]].---Twenty small blue glass beads (probably imported by Spaniards), from the site of a mound in Section 31, Township 11, Range 18 east, Alachua County.