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[[underline]]Accession 17424.[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Joseph Willcox, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania[[/underline]].--- Thirty-six flakes, 5 rude chilled implements, and 6 fragments, apparently of leaf-shaped implements, from John's Island at the mouth of Cheesehowiska River, Hernando County, Florida.---In the letter accompanying those relics Mr. Willcox says: "One of the flakes contains the impression of a fossil sea-urchin, thus indicating the locality where the supply of chert-rock was obtained, viz.: from Mason's Creek, 5 miles northwest of John's Island."

A collection of 65 archaeological specimens, to be sent in exchange for a publication, to the Rev. Mr. Kessler, of Magdeburg, Prussia, was delivered to the Registrar April 9, 1886, and, by an oversight, no mention of the transaction was made in the report for that month.

Mr. Upham was employed most of the time in removing the dust from the specimens in the table-cases. This necessitated the temporary emptying of the cases and the dusting of each specimen. The cases had not been cleaned for years and the work had become an absolute necessity. Twenty-six cases have been finished, and the cleaning will be continued this month.

The large wall-case at the west end of the hall has been entirely emptied of its contents, consisting of many collections received from the Bureau of Ethnology, and is now being provided with a partition and shelves for exhibiting the numerous shell-heap connections thus far mostly hidden from sight in drawers.

The curator was chiefly engaged in the continuation of his "Classification of North American Antiquities."

Smithsonian Institution,     (Signed.) C. Rau Curator.
June 1, 1886.

Professor S. F. Baird.