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^1 copy ST 9.29.85.
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[[underline]]S46753[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U. S. National Museum, during July 1885, and Communication relative to the month of August, 1885.[[/underline]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 73, for storage 4; in Loan Book 1.

[[underline]]Specification of Additions.[[/underline]]

[[underline]]L. C. Johnson, U. S. Geologic Survey.-[[/underline]] Chips and flakes, a cutting-tool (?), and fragments of pottery from Chimney Rocks quarry, 1 1/2 mile southwest of Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida; also flakes, rude implements, arrow-heads and a perforator from Preston's Sink, 3 1/2 miles north of Waldo, Alachua County, Florida, and one half of a drilled ceremonial weapon from Itawamba City, Itawamba County, Mississippi. 63 specimens for exhibition, 4 fragments for storage.

[[underline]]Dr. E. C. Black, Wheatland, Knox County, Indiana.-[[/underline]]A leaf-shaped implement, arrow-heads, celts, a grooved axe, and a rude pierced tablet, all from Wheatland. 9 specimens for exhibition.

[[underline]]L. C. Johnson, U. S. Geologic Survey.-[[/underline]] A shallow stone mortar from Allenton, Wilcox County, Alabama.

The archeological specimens collected by the Bureau of Ethnology during the fiscal year 1884-5 were transferred to this Department July 27th.

The chief work during this month consisted in the assorting, according to localities, of a number of collections previously received from the Bureau of Ethnology, and in labeling the special col-