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have been advantageously used for the reinstallation of important 

 exhibits. 



The large collections illustrating the beginning and development 

 of the Bell telephone ; those representing the inventions of Mr. Emile 

 Berliner in the subjects of telephones and talking machines; the 

 original electrical apparatus invented by Mr. Elihu Thomson, and 

 the experimental apparatus relating to various phases of electrical 

 art devised by Mr. Moses G. Farmer, have been properly grouped, 

 installed in new cases, and provided with suitable labels. The exhi- 

 bition of historical United States Army rifles and muskets, covering 

 the period from 1800 to the present time, was removed to the north- 

 east court, where the other arms have also been systematically ar- 

 ranged, and decided advance is being made in the presentation of this 

 subject, which is rapidly growing in interest. The Langley aero- 

 drome engine, the Scott phonautograph, the Elihu Thomson arc- 

 light dynamo, the Haynes automobile engine, and the cream sepa- 

 rators were installed in separate cases; while the original Haynes 

 gasoline automobile, the Balzer gasoline automobile, the models of 

 Octave Chanute's gliders, and Dr. A. F. Zahm's experimental aero- 

 dynamic models were arranged in a single large wall case. In all 

 classes of exhibits new labels are being provided, and this important 

 Avork is being pressed as rapidly as the facilities for printing allow. 



Ceramics. — Owing to lack of space and of opportunity for organ- 

 izing and appropriately displaying collections of objects in metal 

 and glass, as well as in certain other classes of small art work, these 

 subjects have continued to be mainly associated and exhibited with 

 ceramics in the gallery of the northeast court in the older Museum 

 building. It is hoped, however, that .a more satisfactory arrange- 

 ment can soon be brought about. 



The following were the principal additions of the year: Seven- 

 teen objects, including 2 Moorish platters, 2 large Chinese vases, a 

 Satsuma vase, a Japanese porcelain dish, a large bronze Japanese 

 vase, and a Japanese mythological figure in bronze, received as a 

 bequest from Miss Lucy H. Baird; 12 pieces of enamel and terra 

 cotta, from the estate of the late Homer N. Lockwood, of Wash- 

 ington; 4 pieces of pottery from the Grand Feu Pottery Co., of Los 

 Angeles, Cal., presented by the potter, Mr. Cornelius Brauckman; 

 and an Italian silver filigree bonbon basket of superior workman- 

 ship, received as a gift from Miss Christine W. Biddle, of Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. The following loans were from residents of Washington: 

 Twenty-three pieces of English pink luster ware of the eighteenth 

 century, from Mrs. Alfred S. Gillett; and 11 pieces of Bohemian glass 

 and a decorated terra-cotta pitcher of Doulton ware, from Miss 

 Jennie M. Griswold. 



