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the rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building and the collection 

 of ordnance material in the Natural History Building. In August 

 Capts. E. W. Jepson and J. E. Costello were detailed from the War 

 Department to install material then on hand from the Corps of 

 Engineers. Later these officers were transferred elsewhere, and 

 Sergt. Burns A. Stubbs was detailed, under Lieut. T. X. Ellman, to 

 finish the installation of all exhibits from the Corps, which was 

 completed by the end of May and opened to the public. Capt. A, 1*. 

 Mooradian, of the Surgeon General's Office, rendered valuable service 

 in planning and supervising the wiring and setting up of the equi}> 

 ment of the X-ray laboratory, in the exhibit of the Medical Depart- 

 ment, all of which is operative. 



OTHER COLLECTIOXS. 



In other lines than the War Collections the Museum acquired 

 much material of value and interest. In American history the addi- 

 tions included a large collection of uniforms of the types Avorn by 

 the armies of 23 foreign countries prior to the World War; 226 com- 

 plete uniforms of the types worn in the United States Army from 

 1776 to 1909; material relating to the career of Cyrus W. Field and 

 the laying of the first Atlantic telegraph cables ; miscellaneous scien- 

 tific apparatus used by Joseph Henry, (1799-1878) during the lat- 

 ter part of his life, the gift of his daughter. Miss Caroline Henry; 

 watches owned b}' Major General George B. McClellan, U. S. Army ; 

 swords and other military relics of Major General John H. Brooke, 

 U. S. Army; mementoes of Susan B. Anthony and objects illustrating 

 the history of the woman's suffrage movement in the United States 

 from 1848 to 1919 ; and, for the series of costumes of mistresses of the 

 White House, a black velvet dress worn l)y Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 

 and a lace flounce completing the inaugural dress of Mrs. James A. 

 Garfield. The philatelic material was increased by 5,872 specimens, 

 of which 4,345 were transferred from the U. S. Post office Depart- 

 ment, and of these 2,475 are examples of new issues reaching that 

 Department from the International Bureau of the L^niversal Postal 

 Union. 



The collections received in ethnology show marlcedly the rapid 

 decline of Indian material and a corresponding though less rapid dis- 

 appearance of material in areas less modified. The receipts included 

 Western Indian baskets donated by Miss Ella F. Hubby; valuable 

 material collected during the period of military occupation of the 

 Philippines i-eceived as gifts from INIrs. Thomas F. Dwyer and ISliss 

 Kline, Major General Joseph C. Breckenridge and the late Lieutenant 

 Colonel Diuican Elliott, U. S. Army; and pottery and objects in 

 silver, pewter, and brass bequeathed to the Museum by Miss Eliza- 

 beth S. Stevens. 



