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Buddha from Japan, over eight feet in height including the pedestal. 

 It dates from the Ashikaga period (1338-1573). 



There has been received from Paris a collection of forty small 

 figures representing the costumes of the nobility and peasantry of 

 France at the middle and toward the end of the eighteenth century. 

 They are exquisitely attired, and, when mounted and displayed in the 

 cases which are being constructed for them, will form a most attractive 

 exhibit. 



Mr. Herbert DuPuy with great kindness has consented to place 

 upon view his collection of old silverware, which has for some time 

 been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It con- 

 tains a number of pieces, which have long been in the possession of his 

 family, as well as some which have great interest because they repre- 

 sent the art of the silversmith as practiced in America at an early date. 

 In addition to the specimens loaned by Mr. DuPuy there are a number 

 of pieces which have been deposited in the Museum by Mrs. Frank 

 Osborn, including a spoon made in 1837 in Pittsburgh by McFadden. 

 The Director has made a loan, which is exhibited in the same case, 

 of a silver tea-pot, dating from the seventeenth century, having upon 

 it the coat-of-arms of the Benezet family. This piece has come down 

 to its owner as an heirloom through six generations, it having been 

 brought to America by Jean Etienne Benezet, when he resolved to 

 exchange Philadelphia for London as a place of residence in 1720, 

 he having after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes made his home 

 in London for a number of years. Among his descendants have been 

 a number of men and women distinguished in American life. 



The Museum has acquired by purchase a selection of the enlarge- 

 ments of the photographs made by the photographer who accompanied 

 Sir Douglas Mawson on his expedition to Antarctica. Those photo- 

 graphs which illustrate the animal life of the region were of especial 

 interest, and it was these which were selected. As soon as they can 

 be framed and properly displayed, some of them in the Gallery of 

 Birds, others in the Gallery of Mammals, they will be placed 

 upon view. 



