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[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities. [[/underline]] [[underline]] U.S. National Museum, during December, 1886. [[/underline]] Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 89; for storage 8; in Loan Book 5. [[underline]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]] [[underline]] Accession 18242. [[/underline]] [[underline]] U.S. Fish Commission, Wood's Hole, Massachusetts._ [[/underline]] A leaf-shaped implement, a scraper, 3 arrow-heads and 6 fragments of arrow-heads, from Menemsha Bight, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. 5 specimens for exhibition, 6 for storage. [[underline]] Accession 18412. [[/underline]] [[red tick]] [[underline]] H. W. Turner, U.S. Geological Survey._ [[/underline]] A stone mortar from auriferous gravel on the north side of American River near Folsom, Sacramento County, California. This mortar is of elegant form, and differs from any in the collection. [[underline]] Accession 18455. [[/underline]] [[underline]] Dr. I. E. Nagle, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania._ [[/underline]] A pierced tablet from an aboriginal camping-ground near Roundhead, Hardin County, Ohio, and 4 arrow-heads, respectively from Florida, Vermont, Ohio, and Colorado. [[underline]] Accession 18445. [[/underline]] [[underline]] J. I. Lengsfield, Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi._ [[/underline]] Eighteen flakes of flint, jasper, etc., a scraper, a hammer-stone, 4 polished celts, an unfinished celt, a fragment of a celt, 14 shell heads, 21 fragments of pottery, and 11 fragments of human