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pistol made at RichmoiKl, \"irginia, in 1808, was lent, and a rare 

 Remington carbine having a split hammer and special locking device 

 was presented by Dr. Walter Hough. Mrs. Malek Ahdel Loring, of 

 Chicago, Illinois, presented a pair of Colt's double-action revolvers 

 and a Colt's army revolver with belt, which had been used by Captain 

 Loring. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, United States Deputy Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, contributed a rare and interesting revolver obtained by him 

 in Japan. A pom-pom shell of a form used by the Boers during their 

 siege of Ladysmith, South Africa, was received from the Hon. Rus- 

 sell Hastings Millward. of Washington, District of Columbia, and a 

 3-inch artillery shell found in the Canal Zone, from Mr. F. E. Shuck, 

 of Gatun. 



Prof. Calvin Rae Smith, of Brooklyn, New York, donated 15 

 watch movements of English and French makes, arranged to show 

 the construction of such mechanisms with rack lever, cylinder, 

 detached lever, verge, Swiss patent lever, vertical, and duplex types 

 of escapement. One of the movements, made by a famous English 

 watchmaker, Eardley Norton, about 1810, is a A'ery rare specimen. 

 Mr. John Hansen, of Washington, District of Columbia, contributed 

 8 watches and watch movements of American and foreign manu- 

 facture, which form a valuable addition to the historical exhibit of 

 horology. Dr. Thomas Featherstonhaugh, of Washington, District 

 of Columbia, presented an English and a French watch movement, 

 ■ and a pocket chronograph and pocket chronometer devised and made 

 by Mr. C. Fasoldt, of Albany, New York, between 1864 and 1870. 

 The chronograph has a chronometer balance, combination lever, and 

 chronometer escapement, and a micronometer regulator. The mech- 

 anism is operated by an indei^endent movement and is provided with 

 three registering hands, one for minutes, one for seconds, and one 

 for tenths of seconds. Not more than four or five of these chrono- 

 graphs were made, and the location of only one other is now known. 

 The chronometer time mechanism is much like that of the chrono- 

 graph, and both are valuable specimens. A universal sundial and 

 compass for both north and south latitudes was received as a gift 

 from the Keufl'el and Esser Company, of New York City. Two sun- 

 dials, one calculated for the latitude of Washington, were contrib- 

 uted by Mr. Claude L. Woolley, of Baltimore, Maryland. 



Mr. Elias F. Morgan, of New London, Connecticut, presented a 

 model of a cotton gin made by his father, Elias F. Morgan, which 

 was introduced in 1860 and used in the South for many years, super- 

 seding the "Wliitney gin. A battery made from an ordinary copper 

 gun cap, with which communications were successfully sent across 

 the Atlantic Ocean, through the entire length of the cable, Avas 

 donated by Mr. Henry H. Ward, of East Orange, New Jersey. This 



