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Halbert Rust, Jeffersonville, Indiana.
A large collection of stone and bone implements, etc., embracing nuclei, paleolithic implements, notched axes, hammers, scrapers, perforators, arrow or spear-points, polished hatchets, grooved axes, pestles, cup-stones, fragments of pottery, bone implements, fragment of human skull, bones and teeth of animals, jaw bones of dr[[handwritten]]/[[/handwritten]]wm fish, awls [[handwritten]]/u[[/handwritten]] or needles made of fish spines, fresh water shells, and an encrinite bead.  756 specimens.  Accession 21498.

"The largest number, and most desirable, of the specimens were found in a burial place [[handwritten]]near[[/handwritten]] Clarksville, Indiana, evidently deposited with the bodies of the owners.  Some were on the surface, and at various depths, below it, while others were taken from the graves or gathered on the slope of the shore line after heavy rains or high waters.  I have never found a whole vessel of pottery or fragments larger than those sent.  Many of the stone implements have been little changed

Transcription Notes:
In the paragraph on Halbert Rust, the editing marks are supposed to fix "drwm" to "drum". The annotation used, however, is the proofreader's margin technique, which separates the problem from the solution. Do we transcribe as written or as makes sense? The latter would yield something like "jaw bones of dr[[crossout]]w[[/crossout]][[handwritten]]u[[/handwritten]]m fish, awls".