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[[green pencil]] GBG [[/green pencil]] [[check mark]]

SY 2 copies RDS

2 copies 6-5-86.

K7 upper, Rau, May '86

[[stamp: S54364]]

[[stamp: Smithsonian Institution Received JUN.-3.86 Division of Correspondence.]]

[[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.
Accession 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]] Accession 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.