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reeds for fine silk and ribbon looms, were received from the Knowles 

 Loom Reed Works, of New Bedford, Mass.; and an unusual liand 

 spinning wheel, brought from Belgium by her grandfather about 

 200 years ago, was deposited by Mrs. Chas. W. McFee, of Washing- 

 ton. The Arabol Manufacturing Company, of New York, contrib- 

 uted a comprehensive exhibit of cloth and yarn-finishmg materials, 

 comprising gums, glues, starches, soaps, oils, sizes, and other stiffen- 

 ing or softening compounds. 



Besides the foregoing there were several important additions to 

 the collection of vegetable products other than textiles. The most 

 noteworthy related to the invention and application of vulcanized 

 rubber by the late Charles Goodyear, and was deposited by his 

 grandson, Mr. Nelson Goodyear, of New York. The collection 

 includes life-size portraits of Charles Goodyear, Charles Good- 

 year, jr., and Daniel Webster, done in oils on panels of hard rubber 

 by G. P. A. Healy in 1855; a book of manuscript notes and sketches 

 pertaining to the application of vulcanized rubber, by Charles Good- 

 year; 12 medals of gold, silver, and bronze, awarded the inventor; 

 a chatelaine watch and chaia, mounted in hard rubber and inlaid 

 with jewels; and other pieces of jewelry. The chatelaine, a gift of 

 Charles Goodyear to his wife, is a replica of one presented by him 

 to Empress Eugenie of France. Specimens of gutta percha, rubber 

 and rubber-tree products, and of cocoanuts and cocoanut products 

 were contributed by the Forestry Department of the Federated 

 Malay States, through Mr. Leonard Wray, Commissioner to the 

 Third International Rubber and Allied Trades Exposition at New 

 York; and a trunk of the Para rubber tree (Hevea hrasiliensis), 

 illustrating the herringbone method of tapping, was presented by 

 the Ceylon Commissioners to the same exposition, on behalf of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Peradeniya, Ceylon. A collection 

 of small samples of commercial grades of crude rubber was received 

 from the New York Commercial Company. 



The Treasury Department, through the Supervising Tea Exam- 

 iner, furnished samples of the official tea standards which are used 

 in testing the quality of every pound of tea imported into the United 

 States, There are twelve standards for the current year, repre- 

 senting all the main types of tea received from abroad. The Corn 

 Products Refining Company, of New York, contributed a series of 

 specimens illustrating the starches, sugars, oil, and other products 

 obtained from corn. 



The curator of the division, !Mr. Frederick L. Lewton, made 

 several visits to the textile centers of the country for the purpose 

 of gettmg in touch with the textile manufacturers and of studying 

 the textUe industries at first hand, as well as of soliciting material 

 for the Museum, and most of the accessions of the year resulted 



