REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 95 



Historical collections, coins, and medals. — Amoug the most interesting 

 accessions the following are mentioned by Mr. A. Howard Clark, custo- 

 dian: From W. Du Val Brown, Washington, D. C, a sword, belt, and 

 buckle presented to Maj. Gren. Jacob Brown by the State of New York, 

 a gold snufibox presented by the corporation of the city of New 

 York, and a gold medal presented by the Congress of the United 

 States for valiant services at the battles of Chippewa, Niagara, and 

 Erie in 1814 (deposit) ; from Mrs. Abner Doubleday, Washington, D. 

 C, the garrison flag of Fort Moultrie (loan); from Lieut. Frank E. 

 Brownell, a revolver, cap ornament, and scarf pin owned by the late 

 Col. E. E. Ellsworth, a gold medal presented to Lieutenant Brownell 

 by the citizens of Troy, a medal of honor presented by Congress, a 

 medal containing a piece of the Marshall House flag, a badge of the 

 Society of the Army of the Potomac, a dagger presented by the citizens 

 of Boston, and a revolver presented by the New York Board of Brokers 

 (deposit) ; from Dr. A. Fenyes, Helouan, Egypt, Grecian and Roman 

 silver and copper coins; from N. L. Griswold, Peoria, 111., United 

 States land patent signed by President James Monroe in the year 

 1817 (gift); from J. W. Hiatt, New Harmony, Ind., photographs of 

 Robert Owen, David Owen, William McClure, Thomas Say, and the 

 building of the Workingmen's Institute (gift); from George F. Kuuz, 

 New York City, a brass badge of the Eighteenth Hussars (gift); from 

 Miss S. W. Turner, Washington, D. C, two ancient Greek coins and 

 an icon (gift); and from the Treasury Department a collection of 

 national medals struck at the United States Mint, Philadelphia, form- 

 ing a portion of the exhibit of the Treasury Department at the Atlanta 

 Exposition (deposit). 



There were also received from the city council of Philadelphia a lib- 

 erty-bell medal and council badge, used on the occasion of the journey 

 of the bell to the Atlanta Exposition (gift); from the Natural History 

 Society of New Brunswick, St. John, New Brunswick, photographs of 

 Abraham Gesner and Moses H. Perley (gift); from John Laun, Peters- 

 burg, Va., a silver watch (gift); from Dr. Cyrus Adler, Smithsonian 

 Institution, a Bulgarian coin (gift); from the National Society of the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution, a silver ink tray brought to 

 America in 1G76 by J. Frye and supposed to be of early Saxon make, 

 a leather wallet used by Maj. Ebenezer Frye, a Washington badge, 

 three Lafayette medals in bronze, a silver spoon made from knee 

 buckles worn by Bvt. Col. Ephraim Sawyer, of Lancaster, Mass., and 

 a badge and souvenir gold spoon of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution (deposit). 



Musical instruments. — The accessions for the year include six musical 

 instruments obtained in exchange from the Lubny Museum, Poltava, 

 Little Russia; instruments from Borneo and other localities, acquired 

 through exchange with Mrs. J. Crosby Brown: a virginal from Italy, 

 secured by purchase; five musical instruments presented by Dr. Wil- 

 liam L. Abbott, Bombay, India; a single-headed drum from the island 



