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provided with a more uniform case and placed with the Gatling gun, 

 which form the nucleus of a machine-gun exhibit. 



The collection of sundials was installed in two cases that are to be 

 placed in the metrology section which is now ready to be assembled, 

 due to the recent removal of the Chinese gate"way from the east hall. 



Musical instruTiients. — The collection of musical instruments to 

 which Mr. Hugo Worch has contributed in a most generous and com- 

 mendable manner has had but few additions during the year. A 

 melotrope representing an early stage in the invention of mechanical 

 players for the piano was presented by Mr. Carl Hering, Pliiladel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania. A second accession is a piano made by hand by 

 Gerhardt Feldhar in 1844, and presented by Mrs. William P. Spens- 

 ley, Chicago, Illinois. 



Ceramics. — The exhibition collections of ceramics, Avhich are cared 

 for by the curator of ethnology, remain in the gallery of the northeast 

 court of the Arts and Industries Building pretty much as arranged 

 by the head curator in former years. 



Accessions added during the year exceed those of last year in both 

 number and scientific value. An interesting collection of pottery 

 and porcelain, a portion of the Hussey-Knight-McLane collection, 

 received as a bequest from Mrs. Allan McLane, consists of English 

 blue ware with scenes, Spode, Derby, Wedgwood, luster, and other 

 varieties of English ware ; and of " East Indian " pieces, that is, 

 Chinese after European forms, glass, lacquers, bronzes, and jade. A 

 collection of 78 specimens of lacquer, porcelains, glass, and ormolu 

 and art glass was received as a gift from Mrs. B. H. Buckingham and 

 Miss Isabellef C. Freeman, Washington, District of Columbia. Other 

 accessions are two gold lacquer chests from Japan, lent by Mr. 

 Harold I. Sew all, New York City. 



Graphic arts. — The field occupied by the division of graphic arts 

 is a wide one and of exceptional museum interest and practical im- 

 portance. The many rapidly developing branches of these arts re- 

 quire constant and close attention in order that the collections, and 

 especially the exhibits, shall be kept fully up to date, thus filling their 

 proper functions. Mr. Paul Brockett, custodian of the division, was 

 assisted by Mr. R. P. Tolman, aid. Some of the more important addi- 

 tions to the collections pertain to the group of Japanese wood-block 

 cutters and printers. A lay figure representing the cutter was pre- 

 pared and installed. Essential assistance in this work was rendered 

 by Mr. Eizo Kondo, of New York, and by Mr. Albert J. Osgood, 

 Washington, District of Columbia, who supplied the oriental wood 

 required in making the table. Twenty-nine lithographic progressive 

 proofs of the Edison mazda calendar were presented by the Forbes 

 Lithograph IManufacturing Co. of Boston, Massachusetts. These 



