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jewelry, ivory carving, and bookbindino-, besides which there are 

 many miscellaneous articles of novel and exquisite workmanship. 

 The contributors to the loan collection, numbering 17, were as follows: 

 Mrs. Theodore Koosevelt, Miss Lydia Spencer Biddle, Mrs. James S. 

 Bowdoin, Miss M. C. Codman, Mrs. Nicholas Fish, Mrs. James S. 

 Harlan, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hobson, Mrs. Julian James, Mrs. Richard 

 G. Lay, Mrs. C. A. Oswell, Mrs. James W. Pinchot, Mrs. Charles W. 

 Richardson, Mrs. Thomas F. Richardson, Mrs. G. M. Robeson. ]Mrs. 

 F. W. Schley, Miss Olive Risley Seward, and the Misses Trai)ier. 



In addition to the above, acknowledgments are especially due to 

 Mrs. Whitelaw Reid for the gift of a collar and pair of cult's of Ve- 

 netian point lace of the latter part of the eighteenth century. 



