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from King's College, University of London. It is one of the first 

 examples of a self-excited dynamo, a principle discovered coinci- 

 dentally by Wheatstone in England and Werner Siemens in Germany 

 in 1866. Excellent replicas of four alternating-current motors repre- 

 senting the pioneer work of Galileo Ferraris in 1885 were given to 

 the museum by the Associazione Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica Italiana 

 and Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris of Turin. 



Among the major accessions during the past year in the division 

 of medical sciences were a collection of tools and research apparatus 

 used in a late 19th century microbiology and biochemistry laboratory, 

 donated by the University of Michigan, and a 1953 hydraulic turbine 

 contra-angle handpiece with accessories and test model for dental 

 drilling from the National Bureau of Standards. Also acquired 

 were the office material, dental instruments, and personal memorabilia 

 of Dr. Charles E. Kells as a gift from his daughter, Mrs. J. O. 

 Pierson, through the School of Medicine of Tulane University. To 

 the pharmaceutical collection, an ancient Egyptian mortar and pestle, 

 weights, and amulets were added. 



Civil history. — Several items with Presidential associations received 

 in the division of political history include a pair of leather chaps 

 worn by President Theodore Koosevelt in the Dakota Territory, 

 the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Eoosevelt ; a meerschaum pipe used 

 by President Ulysses S. Grant in the White House, from the estate 

 of George W. Crouch; one of the microphones used by President 

 Franklin D. Koosevelt during his "fireside chats" to the American 

 people in the 1930's and 1940 's, the gift of the Columbia Broadcasting 

 System and WTOP-Radio, Washington, D.C. ; a pen used on January 

 23, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the bill establishing 

 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the gift of 

 Senator Clinton P. Anderson. Important additions made to the First 

 Ladies Collection are two dresses worn by Mrs. Grover Cleveland as 

 First Lady and an evening cape that had belonged to her ; these were 

 the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Cleveland. One of the new 

 dresses, of black satin and iridescent taffeta, now represents Mrs. 

 Cleveland in the exhibit in the First Ladies Hall. 



The division of cultural history received the frame and woodwork 

 of an entire house, the gift of Alexander B. C. Mulholland ; built in 

 Ipswich, Mass., the older portion of this house dates from the late l7th 

 century, the later from about 1750. The Honorable David Bruce pre- 

 sented 18-century woodwork and paneling from two rooms of a 

 Charleston, S.C., house. The architecture of Louis Sullivan is repre- 

 sented in one lot of ornaments from his Chicago Stock Exchange 

 Building, given by Mr. and Mrs. Leon M. Despres, and in another lot 



