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The entering of specimens and their distribution, either for exhibition 

 or for exchange, has been carried on in accordance with the plan indicated 

 in the last annual report. This being the case, any further statement 

 would be only a repetition. 



Duplicates have been sent in exchange as follows : 



To O. P. Rogers, Marengo, McHenry County, Illinois.— A grooved stone hammer. 



To Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, Frith Hill, Godalming, England. — Collection of arrow- 

 heads (114 specimens). 



To Dr. Oskar Schneider, Dresden, Saxony. — Six small bottles of shell beads (Cali- 

 fornia). 



To Edward Lovett, West Burton House, Outram Road, Croydon, England. — Col- 

 lection of archaeological specimens (52). 



The curator of this department has been engaged during the year 

 in the composition of a work on North American antiquities, entitled 

 " The Typical Forms of North American Prehistoric Eelics of Stone and 

 Copper in the U. S. National Museum." 



The present state of the collection is shown by the following tabular 

 statement : 



Number of specimens entered in this department. 



Brought forward from last year 48,763 



Accessions during the year ending June 30, 1887 : 



Exhibition series 12,869 



Duplicate series 764 



13,633 



Total 62,396 



Received from the Bureau of Ethnology : 



Amount brought forward from report, January-June, 1885 16,551 



For the year ending June 30, 1886 2,879 



For the year ending June 30, 1887 19,833 



22,712 



Total 39,263 



Grand total 101,659 



