20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
watch movement made by the Palmer Watch Company, of Waltham. 
Mr. Thomas Featherstonhaugh, of Washington, presented a move- 
ment made by the United States Watch Company, Marion, New Jer- 
sey, which marks a step in the history of watch making in the United 
States, and Mr. J. C. Lindsey, of Ravenna, Ohio, contributed an 
antique silver watch made by Christian Lehmann, at Vattenuyl, Ger- 
many, Supposed to be about one hundred and fifty years old. 
Mr. George F’. Cummings, of New York, donated two historical docu- 
ments relating to the invention of the telegraph, one being an invita- 
tion from Professor Morse to the father of Mr. Cummings to witness 
the operation of his electric magnetic telegraph at a private exhibi- 
tion in the geological cabinet of the New York City University on 
January 22, 1838, the other an original- message recorded in the char- 
acters of the Morse alphabet, said to have been made on the same 
date. 
The gallery of ceramics received 94 pieces, the most interesting 
addition being a gift from the Libby Glass Company, illustrating the 
processes involved in the manufacture of cut glass. The materials and 
the proportion of each employed in the making of the glass are rep- 
resented. There is a miniature model of the furnace with the clay 
crucibles in which the glass is melted, and also a set of the tools and a 
series of objects in glass showing the successive stages of cutting from 
the plain condition to the finished product, comprising beautiful exam- 
ples of this art. The Rey. Curt Morhart, of Bavaria, generously 
donated a clay tablet with green glaze, bearing an allegorical repre- 
sentation of what is said to be the discovery of America by Columbus; 
it is supposed to have been made between 1520 and 1545. Through 
the meeting in Washington, during the winter, of the American Pot- 
ters’ Association, the Museum came into possession of 50 fine exam- 
ples of the potter’s art, presented by 21 different manufacturers. The 
association has generously offered to add material to this collection 
when more space becomes available, and to keep the Museum supplied 
with the latest noteworthy productions. 
Of the additions in graphic arts, two may be mentioned. The first 
consists of twelve lithographic prints in color, constituting a part of 
the illustrations in the notable work of the late Heber R. Bishop, enti- 
tled ‘* Investigations and Studies in Jade.” They were presented by 
the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company, of Boston, and rep- 
resent the highest type of the lithographic art of to-day. The other 
is an original copperplate, one of a series engraved for illustrating 
‘* Philoponus,” etc., published by the Benedictine Monastery at Seiten- 
stetten, Lower Austria, in 1621, and obtained in exchange from the 
Geographical School Museum at the monastery. 
The section of photography received, among many other objects, 
one of the first model ‘‘Genie” magazine cameras, presented by 
