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prise as full records as it will ever be possible to gather of the develop- 

 ment of the Osborne photo-lithographic and of the original Ives half- 

 tone process, while several other inventors have promised to prepare 

 similar records of their achievements. That such material, together 

 with the patents now collecting, must be of inestimable value to future 

 inventors is self-evident. With a view to the further extension of the 

 practical utility of the section, all makers of machinery and tools, and 

 manufacturers and dealers in materials used in the graphic arts are 

 encouraged to send not only specimens of their wares, but also their 

 circulars and catalogues, and the latter are given or sent to applicants 

 for information to whom they promise to be of interest. Few such ap- 

 plications have, indeed, been received so far, but it is to be Loped that 

 as the character aud aims of the section of graphic arts become more 

 widely known, the facdities which it offers, or hopes to be able to offer,* 

 will be utilized more freely. 



It will, I think, need no further argument to show that the section 

 of graphic arts may be made not only a valuable institution for the 

 scholar and the student, but that it may become practically useful to 

 the large body of men and women who depend upon the graphic arts 

 as a pursuit, quite as much as the Bureau of Education, the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, or the Fish Commission are helpful to the teacher, 

 the farmer, and the fisherman. 



APPENDIX A. 



LIST OF DONORS AND DEPOSITORS, SECTION OP GRAPHIC ARTS. 



AIR Brush Company, The, Rockford, Illinois.— Specimens of work done by the 

 air-brush ; 2 numbers. 



Andrew, John & Son, Boston, Massachusetts. — Proofs from wood-engravings, ex- 

 ecuted by the donors, or in their establishment ; '21 numbers. 



Avery, S. P., New York. — Engravings, etchings, lithograph, process prints, books, 

 catalogues, etc. ; 31 numbers. 



Baldwin & Gleason Company (limited), New York. — Specimens of printing on 

 celluloid, executed in the establishment of the donors; 20 numbers. 



Bikrstadt, A., N. A., New York, — Proof of an engraving by James Smillie, from a 

 painting by the donor. 



Boiibett, Alfred, Brooklyn, New York. — Relief engravings printed in colors, exe- 

 cuted by the donor; 5 numbers. 



BOBBETT, WALTER, Brooklyn, New York. — A series of proofs of a relief engraving in 

 colors, showing the various stages, etc., by Albert Bobbett ; '23 numbers. 



BOSTON Boxwood Company, Boston, Massachusetts. — A rough section of boxwood. 



Boston PHOTOGRAVURE COMPANY, THE, Boston, Massachusetts.— Gelatine prints, ex- 

 ecuted in the establishment of the donors ; 18 numbers. 



Boussod, Valadon & Company, Paris and New York.— Process prints of various 

 kinds, executed in the establishment of the donors; 15 numbers. 



Brown, Miss H. Louisa, Boston, Massachusetts. — Lead pencil, India ink, sepia and 

 water color drawings, soft-ground etchings, lithographs, etc., by various artists; 

 12 numbers. 



Buehring, Fred., president of the Lithographer Publishing Company, New York. — 

 India rubber reducing and enlarging machine, invented by thedonor, with speci- 

 mens of work done by its means ; 5 numbers. 



