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gunnery and other classes. Amono; the models of locomotives are 

 those showing the inventions of Asa Whitney, 1840; JNI. AV. Baldwin, 

 1842 ; G. A. Nieholls, 1848 ; A. Cathcart, 1849 ; and Eoss Winans, 1851. 

 Several inventions of George H. Corliss and William Sellers are like- 

 wise illustrated. 



Another notable accession, deposited b}?^ Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell, consists of about 150 pieces of apparatus devised and used by 

 him in his earliest experiments to produce n practical speaking tele- 

 phone, which resulted in the establishment of the present system of 

 the American Bell Telephone Company, now in general use through- 

 out the world. The U. S. Geological Survey transferred an important 

 collection of typical instruments and appliances such as have been em- 

 ployed by the survey, comprising a number of gradienters, alidadse, 

 alt-azimuth instruments, aneroid barometers, heliotropes, leveling 

 rods, odometers of different forms, two aluminum bench-mark tablets, 

 and ten pieces of ajoparatus used in the water resource branch of the 

 service, principally for measuring the flow and velocity of streams. 



Col. A. H. Eussell, U. S. Army, deposited a number of experimental 

 magazine rifles illustrating his inventions, which form the basis of the 

 magazine rifles now in use in the United States Army, together with 

 a number of bronze Spanish mortars and small cannon collected by 

 him in the Philippine Islands. From the Bureau of Ordnance, War 

 Department, there were received three of the latest, or 190G, pattern 

 of army magazine rifles, one United States magazine rifle of the 

 model of 1903, with bayonet, complete, and the component parts of a 

 similar rifle arranged separatelj^ to show the construction and oper- 

 ation of this arm. Among the other accessions were 2 p]nglish tower 

 flint-lock pistols with brass barrels and bell muzzles of superior work- 

 manship, lent by Mr. Richard Rathbun; 2 boxes of percussion pills, 

 introduced about 1840 and extensively used between the time of the 

 flint-lock and percussion-lock guns, obtained from Davis Brothers, 

 Kent, Ohio; the engine used in Professor Langlej^'s full-size aero- 

 drome, deposited by the Smithsonian Institution; 6 models of Jap- 

 anese fishing boats, transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries; a model 

 of a canvas canoe of the type now in general use, presented by the 

 Oldtown Canoe Company, Oldtown, Maine; an old bicycle with 

 wooden wheels, contributed by INIr. C. Howard Buckler, of Washing- 

 ton ; an old iron-frame bicycle, donated by Mr. William Sturgis Bige- 

 low, of Boston; an old grasshopper bicycle, about 1875 to 1880, pre- 

 sented by JNIr. Thomas M. Wilkins, of Washington; a Pomo Indian 

 Tule boat, a survival of the ancient form, made in 1906 by an old 

 Pomo Indian, from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; 

 models of Robert Fulton's steamship Clermont and Fitch's steamboat, 

 by transfer from the State Department ; two Starr carbines, duplicate 

 models of the steamboats Savannah and Phoenix, and models of a 



