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2 copies 6-1-86.

Rau K7 upper April '86

[[stamp: Smithsonian Institution Received May 6-.86 Division of Correspondence]]

[[stamp: S53541]]

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

Number of specimens entered in Record Book: for exhibition 165; for exchange 17; for storage 14; in Loan Book 1; 21 sketches made.
[[underline]] Specification of Additions.
Accession 17278.
John W. Brock, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania._ [[/underline]] 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.
[[underline]] Accession 17297.
A.F. Wooster, Norfolk, Connecticut._ [[/underline]] A notched axe from Norfolk and a grooved one from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
[[underline]] Accession 17302.
A.F. Berlin, Allentown, Pennsylvania._ [[/underline]] Eight arrow-heads, found on Lehigh Island in the Lehigh River near Allentown.
[underline]] Accession 14666.
R.E.C. Stearns, U.S. National Museum._ [[/underline]]
Seven identified shell 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.
[[/underline]] Accession 17307.
Dr. J.M. Spainhour, Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina._ [[/underline]]