REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

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The following is a list of special collections which have been placed 

 on exhibition during the year: 



A series of Xorth American stone and bone weapons and implements 

 in their original shafts and handles has been carefully arranged for per- 

 manent exhibition. Visitors frequently make inquiries concerning the 

 hafting of stone implements, and this series has been brought together 

 for the purpose of illustration. 



A collection of 116 Xorth American stone relics was made to be sent 

 to the Museum at Havre, France, in exchange for flint objects received 

 from that Museum. 



A collection of 2sorth American relics and casts, embracing 358 objects, 

 was made for the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass. 

 This collection is given in exchange for the well-known "Kentucky 

 mummy." 



One thousand three hundred and twenty-nine specimens of stone im- 

 plements, &c, collected under the auspices of the Bureau of Ethnology 

 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, were transferred from the 

 new Museum to the Smithsonian building. They have been placed tem- 

 porarily under table-cases, but will be assorted and exhibited early this 

 year. 



Four boxes containing Californian specimens collected during the 

 Wheeler survey were received in this department, but could not be 

 opened for want of time. 



Researches prosecuted upon material belonging to tlie Department. 



The composition of my work on prehistoric fishing necessitated a 

 careful study of all articles bearing on fishing. Dr. J. F. Bransford, 

 U. S. N"., was occupied during a part of the year in writing an account 

 of his latest explorations in Central America, and describing the speci- 

 mens there collected. Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 has, for literary purposes, examined the shell objects and ceramic speci- 

 mens in this department. 



