86 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



Museum, to the series already on hand greatly increased the impor- 

 tance of the exhibit illustrating the development of the screw pro- 

 peller from 1681 to 1890. A circular sundial adapted for the latitude 

 of Peking, China, 40° north, was received as a gift from Mr. Claude 

 L. Woolley, of Baltimore, Md. It is entirely inscribed in Chinese 

 characters, including the motto " With ceremony he delivered to the 

 people the reckoning of time," taken from the Book of History, and 

 referring to the work of Yao, who first introduced the republican 

 form of government into China, about 2000 B. C. For these in- 

 scriptions both Mr. Woolley and the Museum are indebted to Mr. 

 Yung Kwai, counselor of the Chinese Legation at Washington. A 

 gold medal presented to Joshua FoUensbee, chief engineer, United 

 States Navy, by the Chamber of Commerce and citizens of New 

 York, in commemoration of the part taken by him in laying the 

 first submarine telegi'aph cable between England and America, in 

 1858, was lent by Mr. Frank FoUensbee, of Clarendon, Va. ; and a set 

 of German coin scales made by Johann Daniel Ellinghaus, in 

 Eadevormwalde, German3% which had been in the possession of 

 the Lindinger family, of Buckeburg, Germany, for about 250 years, 

 was purchased. 



The follow^ing firearms were presented : One Ross magazine sport- 

 ing rifle, model of 1910, caliber .28, the magazine holding four car- 

 tridges, by the Ross Rifle Co., of Quebec, Canada ; one Savage maga- 

 zine sporting rifle, caliber .22, the magazine holding six cartridges, 

 by the Savage Arms Co., of Utica, N. Y. ; one Remington repeating 

 rifle, caliber .30, with tubular magazine holding six cartridges, and 

 one Remington autoloading, five-shot, repeating rifle, caliber .35, by 

 the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co., of Ilion, N. Y. ; 

 one Winchester repeating rifle, model of 1891, caliber .30, with tubu- 

 lar magazine holding eight cartridges, and one Winchester repeating 

 rifle, model of 1895, caliber .405, with box magazine holding four 

 cartridges, by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., of New Haven, 

 Conn.; and a single-barrel pistol, caliber .50, percussion cap lock, 

 double set-trigger, Damascus barrel, marked " Dumas A Lyon," and 

 a double-action revolver, caliber .45, marked " G. Mercenier," by 

 Rutgers Ives Hurry, of New York. The War Department deposited 

 a United States Army magazine rifle, caliber .30, model of 1903, with 

 improvements to 1914; and five guns, a gun barrel, and a case con- 

 taining gun barrels were received as a bequest from Miss Lucy H. 

 Baird. 



The collections of the division have undergone much change in 

 location and arrangement, with attendant improvement in conven- 

 ience and effectiveness. They now occupy the north east range, the 

 east hall, the north east court, and portions of the south east range 

 and west hall. Eighteen upright floor cases received during the year 



