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of Japan; pair of modern bronze vases from the Empress of Japan; 

 gold toilet set from the Kino- and Queen of Siam; lady's silver perfmne 

 case from the Maharaja of Dekkan; poems of Japanese authors; ball 

 dress and slippers worn by Mrs. Grant at President Grant's second 

 inauguration ball; lacquered Iximboo case, gold-embossed, said to be 

 one thousand years old, and valued at many thousand dollars, from 

 the King and Queen of Siam; death mask of General Grant; riding 

 boots worn by General Grant at Appomattox, Virginia; velvet belt 

 worn by General Grant; saddle valise; two commissions; live addresses 

 to General Grant received when abroad; five certificates to General 

 Grant; menu cards, etc. Presented l)y the children of General and 

 Mrs. Grant, through General Frederick D. Grant, U. S. Army. 



6. Sword and shoulder straps worn by Gen. Frederick D. Grant, 

 U. S. Army, during the war with Spain, while participating in the 

 campaigns in Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands and in the Peking 

 Relief Expedition; presented by Gen. Frederick D. Grant, U. S. 



Army. 



7. Painting, "The March of Time," from the artist, Mr. Henry 



Sandham, London, England. 



8. Plaster bust of George Washington, made from a life mask taken 

 by Jean Antoine Houdon at Mount Vernon in 1785; from Miss Eliza- 

 beth Bryant Johnston. 



9. Bronze bust of Hon. Horatio King; from his son, Mr. Horatio C. 



King. 



10. Cane of Horace Greeley; from Mr. H. S. Manning. 



11. Costume worn by Prof. S. F. B. Morse when at the courts of 

 Europe; from his heirs, through Mrs. Franz Rummel. 



12. Relics of Governor William Shannon, of Ohio and of Kansas; 

 from Mrs. Osborn Shannon. 



13. Six pieces of American made porcelain, decorated and presented 

 by Mr. E. Lycett, Atlanta, Georgia. 



li. Ten Gra?co- Egyptian papyri, from the Egyptian Exploration 



Fund. 



15. The Division of Physical Anthropology has been enriched by 

 gifts of crania and parts of the human skeleton from Mr. E. W. Nelson, 

 Dr. John Walsh, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Mr. Clarence B. Moore, the 

 U. S. Fish Commission. Dr. D. S. Lamb, L. C. Harris, and the Army 



Medical Museum. 



16. Collection of 837 pieces of gold, silver, and copper coins, from 



Mrs. E. M. Chapman. 



17. An Austrian flint-lock pistol used in the Napoleonic wars; pre- 

 sented by Baron P. Paumgarten, chancellor of the Austro-Hungarian 



Embassy. 



18. Several Morse telegraph keys of the earliest type used in this 



country; presented by Mr. C. ^I. Lewis. 



