54 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



19. A muiil)er of iinportant accessions which have been in the 

 Museum for several years as deposits have, during the year, been 

 presented to the Institution and thus have become permanent exhibits. 

 Among- these are: Dividing- engine and slide rest invented by James 

 Ramsden, presented hy the executors of his estate; Morse telegraph 

 register and relay, loaned by Mr. Charles Heaton and now presented 

 by Mr. Charles M. Heaton, jr.; collections of decorations conferred 

 upon Prof. S. r. B. Morse by various foreign governments, viz: 

 Order of the Legion of Honor of France; the Royal American 

 Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain; Order of the Tower and 

 Sword, Portugal; Order of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus, Italy; Order of 

 Nichan-Iftikhar, Turkey; medal of merit established in 1884 by King 

 Frederick William, of Wurttemberg; medal for scientific merit estab- 

 lished by Frederick William IV of Prussia, set in the lid of a gold 

 snuffbox; presented by J. E. F. Morse, Mrs. Franz Rummel, W. G. 

 Morse, S. F. B. Morse, S. M. Perry, and L. L. Morse. 



PURCHASES. 



The purchases in ethnology were: Thirty-nine specimens of Pueblo 

 pottery from Col. C. A. Deane; 13 specimens of Chippewa Indian 

 quill work from Rev. I). C. Lee; 103 specimens of basketry, masks, 

 etc., from Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. Navy; 195 specimens of Bud- 

 dhist art from Dr. Carl C. Hanson; 74 specimens of mission Indian 

 basketry from Mr. H. N. Rust. 



In ceramics: Five pieces of Syrian glass from Mr. Thomas B. Clark. 



In historic religious ceremonials: Twent3'-eight objects from North 

 Africa illustrating Jewish religious ceremonials, from Mr. Ephraim 

 Deinard. 



In physical anthropology: Crania and other objects from Mr. C. A. 

 Nelson, Mr. B. Sturtz, Mr. N. Dumarest, Mr. Walter G. Hill, Mr. 

 Roy W. Kelley, and Mr. W. C. Hill. 



In metrology: A set of German silversmith's weights of the six- 

 teenth century and a rare surveyor's compass of French manufacture. 



TRANSFERS. 



A number of valuable collections transferred to the Museum b}'^ the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology include the following: 



1. Stone implements, ornaments, pottery, etc., numbering l,3<i4 

 specimens, from the Mississippi Valley and the Pueblo region, col- 

 lected by Mr. E. O. Matthews. 



2. Collection made by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes in the islands of Santo 

 Domingo and Porto Rico, including elal)orately carved stone pestles, 

 zemes or mannniform stones with sculptured devices, a stone hatchet 

 with human figure carved in low relief, stone hatchets with handle 

 and blade in a single piece, stone "collars," amulets, polishing stones, 



