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[[stamped at top "Smithsonian Institution Division of Correspondence. Received Oct. 18, 86"]]

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

Number of specimens entered in the Record.Book for exhibition 450; for exchange 189; for storage 2 small boxes of pot-sherds and stone implements from Charles County, Maryland.  Three entries made in Loan-Book. 

[[underline]]Specifications of Additions. [[/underline]]
[[underline]]Accession 17829[[/underline]]
[[underline]]W.C. Cone, Sater, Hamilton County, Ohio. -[[/underline]] Collection from Hamilton County: Perforators, scrapers, cutting-tools, arrow and spear-heads, polished celts, grooved axes, pestles, and a fragment of pottery; 16 specimens for exhibition, 49 for exchange. 

[[underline]]Accession 17894.[[/underline]]
[[underline]]Dr. J.C. McCormick, Strawberry Plains, Jefferson County, Tennessee._[[/underline]] Collection from a cave on the east bank of the Tennessee River near Holston, Jefferson County: A fragment of flint, fragments of pottery, a large number of human bones (monthly fragmentary, embracing parts of skull, jaw and long bones), and pieces of a mortar-like substance found near the skull; 7 specimens for exhibition, the bones being entered under one number. 

[[underline]]Accession 17921.[[/underline]] [[red checkmark]]
[[underline]]C.T. Wiltheiss, Piqua, Miami County, Ohio. -[[/underline]] A good cast of a stone pipe in the form of an animal's head.  The original was found at Piqua.