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118 diplomas and announcements of honor conferred by universities 

 and other learned bodies for distinction in science, A portrait in oil 

 of Prof. Newcoiiib, by C. H. L. Macdonald, has been placed tem- 

 porarily in the Museum by Mrs. Newcomb. The uniform coat worn 

 by Admiral Farragut while lashed to the rigging of the ship Hartford 

 during the battle of Mobile Bay, August 4, 1864, was presented by 

 Mrs. Pauline Philip Lapidge, of Rockville Center, New York; and a 

 silver snuffbox given by President Millard Fillmore to his wife in 

 1862 was donated by ^Irs. Florence A. Rockwell Judd, of New York 

 City. 



The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America added, 

 among other objects, to its collection of relics deposited in the 

 jMuseum a silver baptismal basin which was sent from Holland in 

 1694 to the first Dutch church on Manhattan Island. The heirs of 

 Mrs. Virginia L. W. Fox presented the Gustavus Vasa Fox collection 

 of books illustrating Russian life and history. Printed, for the most 

 part, in the Russian language, these works are remarkable for their 

 handsome bindings and exceedingly fine engravings. Mrs. Julian 

 James, of Washington, added to her loan collection 51 pieces of silver 

 and glassware and two miniatures belonging to the Bailey-Myers- 

 Mason family, and a sword belt and scabbard. Sixteen American 

 historical paintings by Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt 

 Peale, and other noted artists were lent by Dr. George Reuling, of 

 Baltimore, Maryland. A portrait in oil of Dr. Edward Maynard, by 

 his son, George W. Maynard, of New York City, was presented by 

 the artist. Seven handsome silver trophies, won in rifle competition 

 by the ^Marine Corps of the United States Navy, and a silver cup, won 

 by a boat crew of the marines of the U. S. S. Illinois, were received on 

 deposit. Five pieces of silver — two punch bowls, two cups, and one 

 pitcher — presented to the late Gen. Henry C. Corbin by his fellow 

 army officers in 1901, were lent by Mrs. Corbin. 



An especially noteworthy accession was a bronze tablet 7 feet wide 

 by 14 feet high, showing life-size relief figures of Edward F. Beale 

 and Kit Carson, and commemorating an incident of the war with 

 Mexico, which is explained in the inscription on the tablet as follows: 

 "The army sent from Santa Fe to occupy California was met and 

 defeated by the Mexicans at San Pasquale. The American forces 

 were driven upon a butte in the desert, on which there was no water, 

 and there surrounded by the Mexican forces. Edward F. Beale and 

 Kit Carson, both famous explorers of the West, volunteered to get 

 through the Mexican lines and get reinforcements from Stockton's 

 fleet at San Diego. They succeeded in crawling past three cordons 

 of Mexican sentries in the night, and by hiding in ravines in the day 

 and travelling by night they reached Stockton's fleet after enduring 

 great hardships." This tablet, which is of high artistic design, was 



