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

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 506, for exchange 294, for storage 44; in Loan Book 2; 8 sketches made.

[[underlined]] Specification of Additions. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Accession 18211. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Major W.S. Beebe, Brooklyn, New York.-[[/underlined]] A cast of a remarkable pipe of dark-green serpentine. The original, found near Santa Fe, New Mexico, was loaned by Major Beebe, and the cast taken in the National Museum.

[[underlined]] Accession 11481. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Mrs. M.E. Drake, Oakland, Yalobusha County, Mississippi._[[/underlined]] 
A polished celt found in the northeastern part of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.

[[underlined]] Accession 4199. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Paul Schumacher, deceased.-[[/underlined]] Three shells of [[underlined]] Haliotis rufescens [[/underlined]] from a shell-heap in Southern California. Received from Mr. R.E.C. Stearns, who states that they belong to a collection sent some years ago by the late Paul Schumacher.

[[underline]] Accession 18187. [[/underline]]
[[underline]] Dr. Thomas H. Nelson, Coffee, Bedford County, Virginia, through W. F. Page._ [[/underline]] Seventeen arrow-heads (mostly broken), a pierced discoidal stone, 40 fragments of pottery, and pieces of a human skull and jaw-bones, from a mound in Amherst County, Virginia, and 5 arrow-heads and a notched axe (sur-