EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 19 



when a printer in London, followed by a collection of special note, 

 consisting- of a number of military and civil costumes, swords, por- 

 traits and other relics of Brig. Gen. Peter Gansevoort, United States 

 Army, relating to his career when, as a colonel in the Continental 

 Army, he figured prominently in the ciampaigns against the British 

 in the Colony of New York. Included in this exhibit are also memo- 

 rials of Gen. Gansevoort's son, who fought in the War of 1812, and 

 of his grandson, who attained the rank of brevet brigadier general 

 of volunteers in the Union Army during the Civil War. 



Models of five vessels connected with the discovery and early 

 history of America are next in sequence. They represent a viking 

 ship, such as that in which the Norsemen are believed to have 

 visited this continent about 1000 ; the Santa Maria, flagship of 

 Columbus; the Susan Constant, which brought the first permanent 

 English colony to America; the Mayflower of the Pilgrims; and 

 the United States frigate Constitution. The two remaining cases 

 in this row are devoted, respectively, to the War of 1812 and the 

 War with Mexico. In the first, among other articles, are a gold- 

 mounted sword presented to Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown by the Leg- 

 islature of New York, in recognition of his services during the bat- 

 tles of Chippewa and Bridgewater on July 5 and 25, 1814; a similar 

 sword presented to Maj. Gen. Eleazer W. Ripley for his services 

 during 1812-1814; a number of swords and pistols found on the battle 

 field of New Orleans; and a silver service of five pieces given to 

 Capt. James Lawrence, United States Navy, by the city of Philadel- 

 phia, in acknowledgment of his capture of the British brig Peacock. 

 Most noteworthy in the second case are two gold-mounted swords, one 

 set with jewels, presented to Maj. Gen. James Shields by the States 

 of South Carolina and Illinois, respectively, in recognition of his 

 services during the War with Mexico ; swords of the same character 

 presented to Brig. Gen. Gabriel R. Paul and Brig. Gen. George W. 

 Morgan; a sword and silver pitcher presented to Maj. Gen. John B. 

 Magruder ; a gold medal awarded to Brig. Gen. William H. Browne 

 by the city of New York ; two United States volunteer regiment flags 

 of the period and a Mexican flag captured during the war, besides a 

 number of miscellaneous articles, including swords, silver-mounted 

 pistols, and uniforms worn at that time by United States officers. 



The adjoining row of cases, that facing the main thoroughfare on 

 the left, contains relics of three classes. The first consists of ob- 

 jects of the nineteenth century, including a number of valuable 

 jewels and other articles given to the United States in 1841 by the 

 Imam of Muscat, and personal relics of various individuals, includ- 

 ing Alexander Macomb Mason Bey and Mr. S. F. B. Morse. The 

 second comprises memorials of prominent military and naval officers 



