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[[scribble at top of page "Wode?" or "Goode"?]] [[black checkmark]] [[stamped at top symbol 57597]] [[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.