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cameos, presented by llev. Dr. L. T. Chamberlain; a waistcoat supposed 

 to have beh)nged to Gen. George Washington, deposited by Mrs. J. A, 

 Kodgers, South Bethlehem, Pa.; a canteen carried through the Revolu- 

 tionary war by John Paulding, one of the captors of Major Andre, 

 deposited by Gen. R. W. Meade; a collection of South Carolina colo- 

 nial paper money, and another of silver, nickel, and copper coins of 

 Mexico, Danish West Indies, Great Britain, and Switzerland, received 

 from Mr. A. W.Carey, Adrian, Mich.; a sword and epaulets worn by 

 Capt. Seth Britt Thornton, U. S. A., at Contreras during the last 

 attack on the City of Mexico ; decorations and papers of the late Joseph 

 Smolinski, commander of the Imperial Ottoman (Jrder of the Medjidish, 

 Chevalier of the Polisli Military Cross, etc., deposited by his son Joseph 

 Smolinski, of Washington, D. C, and a model of the Behaim globe, 

 the original of which was made at ]!^uremburg in 1487. 



In all, -Jl*8 specimens were added to the collection during the year. 



Collection of musical instruments. — For reasons explained in previous 

 reports, no attempt has yet been made to permanently install this col- 

 lection, which is now one of the largest in the world. A considerable 

 number of instruments were obtained from several foreign exhibits at 

 the World's Columbian Exposition, and these have been catalogued 

 and either installed in the long wall cases on the east and west sides of 

 the north hall or have been placed in storage. 



No accessions of special value have been received during the year. 

 Mention may be made, however, of "1 instruments from Ceylon and 5 

 from Johore, Malay Peninsula, inircbased from the Field Columbian 

 Museum; a native lyre from Congo, Africa, received from Mr. J. H. 

 Camp ; a Japanese vertical flute, a transverse flute, and a double whistle 

 from Mr. Simon A. Stern, of Philadelphia, Pa,; a vertical flute from 

 New Hebrides, a horn from Friesland, Holland, a virginal made in 1(>02 

 and a Broadwood piano, from Mrs. J. Crosby Brown; a wooden bell, or 

 logo, from Mr. H. J. Moors, of Apia, Samoa; a flageolet and an oboe 

 from Tibet, presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott; a guirro (a sort of whistle), 

 from Puerto Rico, and a tiple (a small guitar), from the same locality, 

 presented by Mrs. Charles B. Smith, of Washington, D. C. 



The collections of oriental antiquities and religious ceremonial objects. — 

 These collections are the outgrowth of the establisliment of a section of 

 the department of arts and industries in 1888, under the honorary 

 curatorship of Dr. Paul Haupt, of the Johns Hopkins University, for 

 the accumulation and preservation of objects illustrating oriental anti- 

 (j^uities and ceremonials connected with religious worship of all kinds. 

 Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, is in charge 

 of these collections, and under his immediate care they have been 

 arranged. They now occupy four alcoves in the east and west halls, near 

 the rotunda. The north alcove in the east hall contains the Egyptian col- 

 lections, arranged in eight cases. The Assyro-Babylonian collections 

 are in the south alcove in the same hall, also arranged in eight cases. 



