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merit exhibits. They occupied a floor space of about 4,000 square feet 

 iu the eastern part of the south auuex adjoining the space occupied by 

 the Navy Department. The collections were made up of materials 

 obtained from different sources to show the various implements of war 

 and the improvements in t v ;C same during recent years. The older forms 

 consisted chiefly of war relics from different parts of the world, the 

 greater part of them being objects captured from, or surrendered by the 

 enemy during the wars with Great Britain, Mexico, the various In- 

 dian wars, and the War of the Rebellion. These were supplemented by 

 a large series showing many of the older styles of weapons used by our 

 own army during the earlier years of its existence. The series of war 

 relics contained a great variety of objects from all parts of the world, 

 including spears, pikes, lances, bayonets, halberds, daggers, creeses, 

 sabers, swords, scimeters, shields, armors, small-arms, and mounted 

 and unmounted guns of various kinds. The collections showing the 

 modern war implements were furnished in large part by the Bureau of 

 Ordnance, and contained a sufficient number of primitive forms to show 

 the origin and development of many of the implements of the present 

 day. The series of small-arms began with the old match-lock, which 

 was in turn followed by the wheel-lock, flint-lock, percussion -lock, and 

 the breechdoading rifle. The series of larger guns contained mounted 

 and unmounted specimens of various forms, including the muzzle- 

 loading cannon, Napoleon gun, breech-loading steel field-piece, Gatliug 

 gun, volley gun, Krupp gun, Hotchkiss gun, and numerous other forms. 

 There was also a large series of projectiles of various styles, a collection 

 of fuses, and samples of the uniforms worn by soldiers of different rank 

 in the various branches of the Army. 



Navy Department. — The Naval exhibits, prepared under the direction 

 of Lieut. Richard Rush, assisted by Ensigns E A. Clements and John 

 Gibson, occupied about 4,750 square feet of floor-space fronting on the 

 main aisle of the Government wing of the Park building, and extending 

 backward for some distance into the south annex. They consisted of 

 separate collections forwarded by the Bureau of Ordnance, Bureau of 

 Construction and Repairs, Bureau of Navigation (including the Hydro- 

 graphic Office, Office of Compasses and Naval Observatory), and by the 

 U. S. Naval Academy. 



The exhibit of the Bureau of Ordnance consisted of steel breech-load- 

 ing rifle guns of various sizes, Parrot rifle gun with fittings, howitzers, 

 Gatling guns, small-arms of different patterns, specimens of projectiles 

 and fuses, and a fully equipped torpedo-boat. The Bureau of Construc- 

 tion and Repair sent a very valuable collection of models of our largest 

 and most modern war vessels, including several now building. The 

 Bureau of Navigation exhibited a complete set of day and night signals, 

 and the flags of all nations. The Hydrographic Office forwarded a series 

 of instruments used in its survey work, a portable observatory with the 

 necessary equipment for the telegraphic determination of longitude, a 

 collection illustrating the methods of chart construction from the first 



