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Lauder in Tokio during the past year. It has been displayed in the 

 Gallery of Useful Arts in two cases which were especially constructed 

 for this exhibit. 



Cooperating with the Art Department of the Carnegie Institute, 

 the Museum gathered and placed on display a collection of documents 

 and other relics pertaining to the early history of the city of Pitts- 

 burgh. This collection was on exhibition until the end of November, 

 and awakened great interest in the public. The exhibition was made in 

 connection with the centennial celebration of the granting of a charter 

 to the city. ^ 



Colonel S. H. Church, President of the Board of Trustees of the 

 Carnegie Institute, has presented the Museum with a very complete 

 set of Japanese armor, and also with a death mask of Oliver Crom- 

 well, taken from the original, formerly in the possession of Thomas 

 Carlyle. ^ 



Extensive collections of birds and mammals have been received 

 from Mr. M. A. Carriker, Jr., who for some time has been working for 

 the Museum in Colombia. 



Mr. B. Preston Clark has donated a number of entomological 

 specimens from Seward, Kodiak, and Skaguay, Alaska. 



Mr. John M. Phillips, who has always been most generous, has 

 added to our collections a male jaguar, killed at Tamaulipas, Mexico, 

 in 1915- 



A letter has been received from Mr. Samuel M. Klages stating 

 that he had reached Trinidad, and that it was his intention to begin 

 collecting for the Museum in French Guiana. 



