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the Museum. Mr. James W. Gidley examined the Pleistocene cave 

 deposit at Cumberland, Md., on several occasions, and secured much 

 interesting material, including a nearly complete skeleton of a large 

 peccary-like animal, besides many good skulls of this and other 

 species, some of which had not previously been discovered. He also 

 visited a cave deposit at Renick, W. Va., on the Green Brier River, 

 where specimens similar to those found at Cumberland, were col- 

 lected. A few short trips were made by Mr. Norman H. Boss and Mr. 

 William Palmer to the Miocene marl deposit in the vicinity of 

 Chesapeake Beach, Md., where they obtained some 30 specimens of 

 fossil cetaceans, including one fine porpoise skeleton and several 

 more or less complete skulls of porpoises and whales. 



Dr. E. T. Wherry spent three weeks during June, 1914, under the 

 auspices of the Geological Survey in areal mapping for the folio 

 publication of the Reading and Allentown quadrangles in eastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



THE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 



Textiles. — As was to be expected, with the spread of information 

 as to the organization and activities of this division, so recently 

 reestablished, there was a considerable increase during last year, both 

 in the number of accessions and in the general value of the material 

 received, manufacturers and others entering cordially into the 

 scheme of building up a collection that would be both comprehensive 

 in its scope and practical in its purposes. Following are the more 

 important of the accessions, all of which were of the nature of gifts 

 except where otherwise stated : 



The Messrs. Cheney Bros., of South Manchester, Conn., added 

 to their already important exhibition a large series of specimens 

 illustrating steps in the processes followed in weaving, printing, 

 and finishing silk goods; examples of silk scarfs made up from 

 standard weaves of tie silks, and woven and knit cravats both fin- 

 ished and as they come from the loom or Imitting machines ; printed 

 silk flags made during the presidential campaign of James G. Blaine, 

 being among the earliest prints made on silk by copper rollers ; and 

 specimens of various kinds of taffeta, satin, g;rosgrain, ottoman, and 

 velvet ribbons. This firm also presented the oldest model of the 

 Grant silk reel, a machine invented in 1882 by James Munroe Grant 

 while employed in the Hartford mill of the Cheney Bros., by 

 means of which the thread forming the skein is crossed at regular 

 intervals, the cross in the skein preventing tangling during dyeing 

 and subsequent handling. 



Samples of surface-printed broad silks, woven, printed, and fin- 

 ished in the American plant of the Duplan Silk Co., in New York, 

 from designs prepared in the Martine School of Decorative Art, 



