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and hand embroidery; the other, a cotton quilt, interesting because 

 of its old, English landscape chintz lining, was obtained from 

 Miss Edith C. Long, also of Washington, D. C. 



Our collection of Cashmere shawls has been augmented by the loan 

 of an interesting specimen from Mrs. Louise E. Hogan, Neponsit, 

 Long Island, N. Y., which represents a quality unlike those heretofore 

 received, and for this reason is a valuable acquisition, as this class 

 of art textiles presents a large field for study, because of the wide 

 variety of design, color, and quality of yarn used in the manufacture 

 of these shawls. 



Examples of the interesting textile fabrics woven by the Moros of 

 the Lake Lanao region of the Island of Mindanao, in the southern 

 part of the Philippine Archipelago, were loaned to the Museum by 

 Lieut. Col. F. W. Brown, Washington, D. C. The 26 specimens of 

 Moro weaving include bright-colored plaid squares of cotton for 

 headdresses ; long, striped cotton scarfs or sashes ; and all cotton, and 

 cotton and silk sarongs in gay stripes of blue, red, green, yellow, 

 and magenta. Several of these fabrics showed wide stripes woven 

 with warp threads which had been tied and dyed, giving beautiful 

 mottled or clouded effects. 



Examples of the household crafts of earlier days, consisting of a 

 spinning wheel of the type used to spin wool and cotton yarns ; a home- 

 made, four-arm clock reel for reeling the spun yarn into the skeins 

 or cuts of uniform length required for warping the old hand looms; 

 three homemade baskets woven from aspen and willow sprouts grown 

 in Virginia ; two candle molds ; and a bundle of dressed raw flax which 

 was grown in Fairfax, Va., soon after the Civil War, were contributed 

 by Mrs. Charles R. Weed, of Seat Pleasant, Md. 



The National Museum is indebted to Mrs. M. W. Gill, of Wash- 

 ington, for the deposit of a Florence lock-stitch sewing machine, 

 which will be added to the series of sewing machines illustrating the 

 development of this most useful invention, the first of which to sew 

 a seam by machinery is the Howe machine of 1845. 



In the division of medicine, the most important accession of the 

 year was the deposit of an automatic tablet machine by the Arthur 

 Colton Co., of Detroit, Mich. Compressed tablets are now used to an 

 enormous extent in medicine, being made with machinery of in- 

 genious construction. The fact that this class of tablets requires no 

 medium or vehicle to aid in their administration, and the ease with 

 which they can be tested, as well as their permanent character (in 

 most cases being just as valuable years after they are made as when 

 fresh) has made them a very popular form of medication. This ma- 

 chine is equipped with an electric motor, and will produce from one 

 to three hundred tablets a minute. It will be used to demonstrate 

 how medicated tablets are made. 



