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transportation there was received an electric brougham of about the 

 year 1900, a gift from Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. 



For the collection showing the development of time keeping the 

 city of Frederick, Md., presented a tower-clock movement made 

 about 1791 that was continuously in use as the town clock until a 

 few years ago. 



From Mrs. Daniel Gardner the Division of Textiles received a 

 notable series of specimens illustrating the textile art and related 

 subjects of the early nineteenth century. These included hand- 

 woven blankets, bed linens made from hand-spun yarns. Paisley and 

 India shawls, coverlets, and baskets. Through exchange with Yale 

 University, School of Forestry, the wood collections received a set 

 of 116 Liberian woods collected where extensive forests were being 

 cleared for rubber planting. 



History. — The division of history obtained as its outstanding 

 addition a series of 71 paintings by the late J. L. Gerome Ferris, 

 presented by Mrs. Ferris, the set representing the life work of this 

 well-known American artist. The pictures illustrate notable events 

 in American history from the time of the discovery to the World 

 War; a number deal with the career of George Washington. The 

 personnel of the Eighty-first Division, A. E. F., presented a portrait 

 of Maj. Gen. Charles J. Bailey, painted by Joseph Cummings Chase. 

 The Chase Collection of A. E. F. portraits in the National Museum 

 now includes 48 paintings. For the antiquarian collections Mrs. 

 Eleanore Daughaday Hertle, through her husband, Louis Hertle, 

 gave a topaz necklace presented to Mrs. James Monroe by her hus- 

 band, James Monroe, when he was United States minister to France. 



Through the Joint Committee on the Library the Congress of the 

 United States loaned to the National Museum the Washington me- 

 morial window, a stained-glass panel by Maria Herndl representing 

 George Washington on horseback conferring with Lafayette and Von 

 Steuben. A large collection of chinaware, glassware, silverware, 

 and other household objects of the early part of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury was presented by Mrs. Daniel Gardner. 



The collection of military uniforms of the World War period was 

 augmented by a series of military uniforms and equipment of the 

 type used by the enlisted men of the Portuguese Army contributed 

 by the Government of Portugal through its minister in Washington. 



The American Numismatic Society continued its additicms to its 

 large and interesting loan collection of coins. The philatelic collec- 

 tion received more than 4,000 specimens by transfer from the United 

 States Post Office Department — chiefly sets of new issues distributed 

 by the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union. 



