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ventor, was presented by the Stevens Institute of Technology. Origi- 

 nal radio apparatus was received from the widow of Edwin Arm- 

 strong, comprising his regenerative receiver made about 1912, three 

 superheterodyne receivers, a superregenerative circuit, and what is 

 considered the oldest surviving frequency-modulation receiver. 



The Dodrill-GMR mechanical heart, the first to be used successfully 

 for the complete bypass of the human heart during surger}'^, was pre- 

 sented by the General Motors Corporation through C. L. McCuen of 

 the Research Laboratories Division. The Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research gave the first Einthoven string galvanometer made 

 in the United States for an electrocardiograph. This was made in 

 1914 by Charles F. Hindle for Dr. Alfred E. Cohn. The electro- 

 cardiograph used by Dr. Frank E. Wilson, a pioneer in the field of 

 electrocardiography, was presented by the University of Michigan. 



Several hundred drawings, mostly of the details of early Bessemer- 

 process steel plants made by the distinguished engineer Alexander 

 Lyman Holley, were the gift of the Rensselaer Polyteclmic Institute. 



An elaborately carved roller cotton gin from India was received 

 from Mrs. Stanley M. Walker. A pink brocaded taffeta christening 

 blanket, known to have been used in 1827, was presented by Faith 

 Bradford, and a commemorative linen, "Vv'e Offer Peace, Ready for 

 War," was given in the name of Sibyl Avery Perkins, deceased, by 

 her daughter, Mrs. Robert C. Johnson, Jr. 



An unusual board section of curly yellow buckeye showing beautiful 

 blue stain markings was presented by Ray E. Cottrell of the Wood 

 Collectors Society. Fifty microscope momits of woods of the family 

 Celastraceae were received from John A. Boole, Jr., and 20 woods 

 and 20 corresponding mounts of the genus Garry a, through Prof. J. E. 

 Adams, from the University of North Carolina. 



A linoleiun block print, "Le Coup de Vent," by Felix Vallotton 

 (1865-1925), an important figure in the revival of the woodcut, was 

 purchased through the Dahlgreen fund. 



Two etchings by Giovanni Baptista Piranesi (1720-1778), "Veduta 

 del Palazzo dell' Academia" and "Veduta sul Monte Quirinale del 

 Palazzo Eccelentissima," were received as Smithsonian Institution 

 deposits. Eight etchings illustrating Homer's Odyssey, by the well- 

 known Polish artist Sigmund Lipinsky (1873-1940), were presented 

 by Mrs. Elinita K. Burgess Lipinsky. 



History. — A very interesting specimen received in the division of 

 civil history was a piano used in the White House during the adminis- 

 tration of President John Quincy Adams. This piano, on loan from 

 the Juilliard School of Music in New York, is a very early one of 

 American make, bearing the type of label used between 1822 and 1829 

 by Alphaeus Babcock who worked in Boston, 



