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Dr Lewis Roper of Pliiladelphia for a Medal 

 of Georg Washington Deer 28th 1844. H. L. 

 Ellsworth 



10 Washington City Janr 29th 1843 



Parser Bridge presents his compliments t(.i 

 Mr Ellsworth and scndes for the National 

 Gallery a few curiosities from Africa and of 

 which he mentioned to Mr Ellsworth yesterday 

 and of which the following is a list iinciantific 

 language Nati\-e Money from Sett[ra?j Koroo 

 Africa Made of Old brass run in moulds of 

 sand \'alue SI. 50. small dowries sevvd upon 

 cloth Native Mone>- \alue 25 cts. . . . 



35 Brick tea from the Province of Yunann. 

 C:hina . . . by Mr George R West June 19th 

 1850. Ths Ewbank Corns of Pats. 



Appendix IV 



The National Institute 



C. Hunter's Guide 



More comprehensive than John Warden's catalogue 

 is a guidebook published in Washington in 1855 which 

 describes displays arranged by the National Insti- 

 tute in the Patent Oflice Building. Alfred Hunter's 

 guidebook is entitled .1 Catalogue of the Extraordinary 

 Cunosttiei of the j\ational Institute to lie seen in the Patent 

 Office Building; also a Catalogue of the Botanical Plants, 

 to be Seen in the Government Conservatories, Foot of the 

 G2/>;/o/ (W'ashington, 1855). .-X later edition of Hunter's 

 guidebook was published in Washington in 1859 

 under the title: .1 Pofnilar Catalogue of the Extraordinary 

 Curiosities in the National Institute Arranged in the Building 

 Belonging to the Patent Office. 



The following are excerpts of numismatic interest 

 from Hunter's 1855 catalogue. 



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1 7 Opposite Case 6 



A collection (jf Continental and Prcjvincial 

 money; one for 20 shillings, dated 25th Ajjril, 

 1776, issued by the Assembly of Pennsylvania in 

 the name of George HI, and ]jrinted by Benjamin 

 Franklin: also what was called shin-plasters in 



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later times issued all tlirough the LI.S. at various 

 times. Some of the old Continental money was 

 redeemed, but the greater part was lost in the 

 hands of the owners. 



2 1 Case 9 



100 to 103. Gold and zinc coins from Japan. 



22 Case 10 



Copper coin of the Republic ui C:hili. Has a 

 single five-pointed star in the centre, is worth one 

 and a quarter of our cents. Presented by Lieut. 

 George W. Hammersly, Ex. Ex. 



23 C;ase opposite 1 1 — Indian Curiosities. 



. . . prepared skins, wampum, pipes, neck- 

 lace made with beads and the claws of the 

 grizzly bear. 



43 Case 28 



C^illection of ancient coins, collected in 

 dillerent parts of Europe b>' Thomas Munroe, 

 while aid to the Emperor of Russia: presented by 

 his father. 



.Medals bv the go\'ernmcnt of Belgium ; medals 

 oi the Royal Society of Sciences, Letters, and 

 Arts of Antwerp, on tiie occasion of the Rubenical 

 ietest in honor of Rubens — one given by the 

 National Exhibition of Fine Arts, in 1839, and 

 intended as a national reward; one commemo- 

 rative of the opening of the first section of the 

 Belgian railroad, in 1834 — by Clhas. Serruys, 

 Belgian minister. 



44 Case 29 



Mone\- from .\frica. .\nother piece of the value 

 of SI. 50; four of these buys a good sized negro 

 boy. 



33 Case 24 



. . . Medals from the Belgian government, 

 struck on the occasion of the inauguration and 

 completion of the great railroad. The great seal 

 of the United States. 



Box ol old Spanish coins. 

 Medals. 



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