r^O EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



4. Derringer pistol, once the propert.y of Henrj^ Clay; By Mr. B. B. 



Per row. 



5. Collection of 26 relics of the Kevolutionary period; by the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution, through Mrs. William Lind- 

 say, chairman of the relic committee. 



6. Pewter platter, land grant, etc.; by the National Society of 

 Colonial Dames, through Miss Virginia Miller, chairman of the relic 

 conmiittee. 



7. Fossil skull from an ancient river terrace at Lansing, Kansas; by 

 Mr. M. C. Long. 



8. Anthropometric apparatus; by the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, and the Army Medical Museum, Washington. 



9. Collection of pikes and lances used by Confederates during the 

 civil war, uniforms of the same period, guns captured in various 

 Indian campaigns, swords and an old uuisket from the ship Somerset^ 

 war of 1812; by the War Department. 



10. A series of six models of United States war vessels, deposited by 

 the Navy Department, is of special interest. The vessels represented 

 are the cruiser Balttuiore, gunboats Yorktoivn^ Petrel., and Bancroft; 

 double-turreted monitors Miantonoinoh and Monterey: ram Katahdiv; 

 and dynamite gunboat Vemwius. 



11. Models of cannon and howitzers used in the United States Army 

 between 1845 and 1865, and a large collection of rifles, muskets, and 

 other small arms; bj^ the War Department. 



12. Samoan outrigger canoe, by Mrs. J. L. Jayne. 



13. Daguerreotype of Mrs. Dolly Payne Madison, wife of President 

 Madison, by Mrs. C. S. Brooks. 



CAKE OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



The numerous accessions of the year, especially the large collections 

 of Abbott, Hilder, and others, have made it necessary to contract the 

 exhibition space in order to make room for the ever-growing study 

 series and for laboratory purposes. The demands of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition and of the newly -established Division of Physical 

 Anthropology for space have increased the embarrassment. The con- 

 gestion has been somewhat relieved by fitting up the galleries over 

 the south-west and west-north ranges, but overcrowding is still every- 

 \\ here apparent. 



The usual watchfulness over the ethnological collections to protect 

 them from insects and rust has been exercised, and Mr. Joseph Palmer 

 has devoted a large part of his time to the work of overhauling, reno- 

 vating and poisoning. 



Until additional exhibition space is provided the installation of new 

 material is practically at an end, excepting where exhibits that have 

 been long before the public are replaced by others of greater interest. 



