EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 45 



in Arabic, ''Work while the King gives the light." A 5-cjhnder 

 revolving aeroplane engine, of 30 horsepower and weighing 97 pounds, 

 devised by Mr. Emile Berliner, was donated by the Gyro Motor Com- 

 pany, of Washington. 



As a temporary loan, the Museum received from the Isthmian 

 Canal Conmiission a working model of the Pedro Miguel locks, and 

 a papier-mache rehef map of the Gatun dam, locks and spillway of 

 the Panama Canal. They have been exhibited in the foyer in the 

 ground story of the new building. 



The floor of the northeast court in the older Museum building, 

 from which the collections of graphic arts had been removed, was 

 assigned to this division and is being used for the exhibition of fire- 

 arms and other articles. Its acquisition for this purpose has per- 

 mitted the withdrawal of certain exhibits belonging to the division 

 from the west side of the building which is required for other branches 

 of the arts and industries. The classified arrangement and labeling 

 of the exhibition collections made good progress. The original appa- 

 ratus and models relating to electricity and many of the mechanical 

 arts are being segregated in the east haU, and the smaller aeronautical 

 models and the automobiles in the southeast range, but owing to the 

 limited space a clearly distinctive separation between the different 

 classes can not now be carried out. An important work consisted in 

 the overhauling of the extensive storage of the division, which was 

 not, however, completed, and the rejection of some material found 

 to be of no further value to the Museum. 



Ceramics. — There were two principal additions to the section of 

 ceramics. One of these, a loan from ^Irs. Juhan James, was a collec- 

 tion of some size, made by the late Theodorus Badey Myers, a noted 

 connoisseur of New York, and comprising large DeKt, polychrome 

 and blue plates of great beauty and value, a number of fine examples 

 of Hispano-Moresque ware, objects of blue Staffordshire ware, Liver- 

 pool pitchers with patriotic scenes, Lowestoft, Wedgwood and 

 modern porcelain, and some glass ware. Mi-s. James also deposited 

 four panels of old blue Delft tiles with scenes. The other, for which 

 the Museum is indebted to IMiss Helen E. Coohdge, of Washington, con- 

 sisted of three Lowestoft plates of superb blue and two Chinese por- 

 celain cups generously presented, and of a rare cup and saucer of Spode 

 ware received as a loan. Reference may also be made here to the 

 large collection of porcelain assembled by the late Rear Admiral F. W. 

 Dickins, U. S. Navy, and deposited by Mrs. Dickins, which, because 

 of its pictorial significance, has been installed with the historical col- 

 lections and is described in connection with them. 



Graphic arts. — Most noteworthy among the donations of the year 

 were an exhibit illustrating the Ben Day rapid shading mediums, 

 comprising a Ben Day machine, prmtmg screens, mk roller and pad. 



