Editorial. 3 



Mr. Herbert DuPuy has within recent months added to the col- 

 lection of old American silverware which he has kindly loaned to the 

 Museum, thirteen pieces which possess great interest. He has also 

 deposited a strip of Gobelin tapestry made toward the end of the 

 seventeenth century. 



The initial paper in this number of the Annals consists of a catalog 

 of the collection of watches deposited by Mr. H. J. Heinz in the Car- 

 negie Museum, containing one hundred specimens illustrating the 

 evolution of this form of time-piece and showing a number of beautiful 

 specimens of the jeweler's art displayed in the adornment of watch- 

 cases. Probably the most interesting specimen from an historic 

 standpoint, is the watch which belonged to Lord Nelson, the hero of 

 Trafalgar, which is shown as the frontispiece of the catalog, a small 

 edition of which is being separately issued. The catalog has been 

 prepared jointly by Mr. Douglas Stewart, who wrote the introduction 

 and prepared the list of the specimens, and by Dr. W. J. Holland who 

 edited the paper and attended to the preparation of the plates which 

 illustrate it, the photographs having been made by Mr. A. S. Cogge- 

 shall. 



