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from Sullivan's Garrick Building, given by the Joint Committee on 

 Preservation of the Garrick Building Ornament and World Book 

 Encyclopedia. Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Pope Meigs, Jr., presented 223 

 miscellaneous pieces of furniture, utensils, portraits, and other items, 

 all heirlooms of the Meigs family. Other gifts include 33 rare early 

 maps, a gouache by D. Y. Cameron, a painting by Thomas Wood, and 

 two silver cans by Samuel Edwards, from Mrs. Francis P. Garvan; 

 an 18th-century account and letter book of Alexander Smith of 

 Alexandria, from Mrs. Jean M. Dodd; two mahogany side chairs 

 from Mrs. Wellington Powell; and four side chairs and a Pennsyl- 

 vania rocking chair from Mrs. George Maurice Morris. The family 

 of Harry T. Peters donated a poster advertising a traveling menagerie 

 from the Zoological Institute of New York City, dated 1835, a rare and 

 early example of its kind. 



To the division of numismatics was added an original pewter strik- 

 ing of the noted Castorland token made for the officers of the French 

 colony established at Carthage, N.Y., 1796, and a rare pattern half 

 dollar of 1916, both given by Ben Douglas. Other outstanding addi- 

 tions to the United States series were a $20 gold piece in high relief 

 and a $10 gold piece originally owned by Henry ELering, who com- 

 pleted the design of these coins in 1907 for Augustus St. Gaudens, and 

 Mr. Hering's notes concerning the history of this gold coinage and 

 the interest of President Theodore Roosevelt ; these were the gift of 

 Stack's of New York. A die used by the J. J. Conway Co. of Colorado 

 in the striking of a private $5 gold piece was donated by Robert Bash- 

 low. Joseph B. Stack gave tintypes of the Bechtler family, well- 

 known private gold coiners from North Carolina, a daguerreotype of 

 John Little Moffat, a leading coiner in San Francisco during the gold 

 rush, and the notebook of the muit engraver J. B. Longacre concerning 

 the design of the 1856 flying eagle cent. 



An important collection of silver bars, bullet money, and various 

 forms of media of exchange used in Siam and China were donated by 

 Mrs. F. C. C. Boyd ; Harvey Stack gave the Edith and Jean Jacques 

 Turc collection of necessity pieces issued in France and the French 

 colonies during the 1914-26 period. Willis du Pont added 645 coins 

 struck during the second part of the reign of Catherine II of Russia 

 and 210 Russian silver and bronze medals. Mrs. Wayte Raymond 

 gave 1,167 coins of the world struck during the 19th and 20th centuries 

 Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Neinken made an important contribution of a 

 specialized collection of checks of United States banks and nearly 

 10,000 items of European paper currencies and documents of value. 

 The first instance of the use of paper in coinage, a quarter gulden in 

 cardboard issued in Leyden in 1573 during the siege by the Spaniards, 

 was a gift from Dr. V. Clain-Stef anelli. 



