20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1952 



West Virginia about 75 years ago, was received from Arden Wilson. 

 The other, a 2-row corn planter dated about 1860, was presented by 

 Warren Hammond. A beautiful round tablecloth, 10 feet 10 inches 

 in diameter, made of linen eyelet lace and hand-made filet medallions, 

 was acquired as a bequest from Lena L. Jones. Eight pieces of 

 American embroidery and drawn work of the eighteenth and nine- 

 teenth centuries were presented by Mrs. Helen F. McMickle. The 

 United States Forest Products Laboratories transferred to the section 

 of wood technology 17 woods from eastern United States and Mexico 

 and 8 new wood products resulting from laboratory research. Joseph 

 L. Stearns presented 25 woods from Indochina. 



An oil engine built before 1878 by George B. Brayton, American in- 

 ventor and manufacturer, was presented by Brown University at the 

 suggestion of Professor Emeritus William H. Kenerson. The en- 

 gine, which was purchased by the university to drive an arc-light dy- 

 namo, is a 1-cylinder kerosene beam engine weighing about 1,500 

 pounds. Stephen C. Van Fleet presented a collection of early radio 

 apparatus, including a complete 10-watt transmitter of 1922-23, a 

 Jenkins Kadiovisor of 1930, and a See- All Television Scanner. 



Kussell T. Limbach made a series of stones and prints to illustrate 

 the making of a lithograph. Several notable prints, including two 

 fifteenth-century niello prints, "Christ on the Cross" and "Portrait of 

 a Pope," were purchased through the Dahlgreen fund. The section of 

 photography received from Dr. Lowrain McCrea his original cyto- 

 scope camera. Additions to the print collection include "Awakening," 

 an engraving by Gabor Peterdi, and "Furnace," a wood engraving by 

 Charles Quest, both purchased under the Dahlgreen fund, and "Win- 

 ter," a lithograph by Russell T. Limbach, the gift of the artist. Fif- 

 teen prints by Wood Whitesell and 14 prints by A. Aubrey Bodine 

 were presented by the artists for the photographic print collection. A 

 keratometer or opthalmometer designed to measure the amount of 

 corneal astigmatism was received from Dr. Arthur O. Morton. 



History. — A walnut chest of drawers once owned by Jonathan Ed- 

 wards, New England scholar and theologian (1703-1758), came as a 

 gift from Louise Taylor Andrews to the division of civil history. 



During the year an unusual group of ship models, including the Bon 

 Homme Richard, frigate Constitution, sloop Kearsarge, cruiser Olym- 

 pia, cruiser Brooklyn, destroyer Mariley, and heavy cruiser Wichita 

 were transferred by the Department of the Navy for incorporation in 

 the hall of naval history. 



As a bequest, the division of military history received the saddles 

 and horse equipment of Gen. John J. Pershing, and his son, Francis 

 Warren Pershing, presented the General's library comprising some 

 1,800 volumes. 



