SECRETARY’S REPORT 19 
three volumes features postage, and the Clarence H. Eagle collection 
of U.S. revenue proofs and essays includes a comprehensive showing 
of match and medicine varieties. John P. V. Heinmuller donated his 
prize-winning collection of Zeppelin covers. Housed in 21 volumes, 
the collection portrays the early experimental flights of the 1908-10 
period, World War I, and all flights of the Graf Zeppelin. One in- 
teresting specimen is a scorched cover carried on the ill-fated flight 
of the Zeppelin Hindenberg, which burned at Lakehurst, N.J., May 
6, 1937. Comdr. W. R. Anderson, Commanding Officer, U.S. Navy 
submarine Vautilus, presented in the name of the Navy and his crew 
the rubber canceling devices made by the crew members and used to 
cachet envelopes in commemoration of the first navigation by sub- 
marine beneath the polar icecap. 
Armed Forces history—Among the outstanding material received 
in Armed Forces history were early U.S. military and naval insignia 
from the unique W. Stokes Kirk collection, a very rare pair of epaulets 
owned by Gen. George Washington acquired from Mrs. Janet Ran- 
dolph Ball Haden, and an early 19th-century broadax from the Fort 
Ticonderoga Museum. Transferred from the U.S. Naval Academy 
were 17 builders’ half models of early naval vessels, and examples 
of diving gear were received from the Experimental Diving Unit, 
Department of the Navy. 
Original drawings numbering 177 of plans for U.S. sailing ships 
were presented by Howard I. Chapelle, author of the important work 
“The History of the American Sailing Navy.” Frank Mather Archer 
presented an excellent example of the type of uniform coat worn 
by a lieutenant of the U.S. Infantry during the period of 1828-36. 
An outstanding collection of prints and books illustrating European 
uniforms and equipment was presented by Col. William E. Shipp. 
Edward B. Tucker of Somerset, Bermuda, donated objects recovered 
from 16th- and 19th-century shipwrecks. Collections of objects re- 
covered from 18th-century shipwreck sites in Florida were received 
through the courtesy of Edwin A. Link, Arthur McKee, and Dr. and 
Mrs. George Crile, Jr. Aniron shot from the site of the 16th-century 
fortress of San Lorenzo was given by Karl P. Curtis of Panama. 
Arts and manufactures—An outstanding addition to the division of 
ceramics and glass is a collection of 600 pieces of Dutch and German 
pottery and stoneware, the gift of the Honorable Wiley T. Buchanan, 
Jr., Chief of Protocol, and Mrs. Buchanan. The collection is especially 
rich in Medieval Dutch household wares and Rhenish stoneware 
types, many of which are exhibited nowhere else in the United States. 
A noteworthy slip-decorated Rhenish jar from Pingsdorf, Germany, 
dated 12th or 13th century, is representative of the beginnings of the 
very important German stoneware industry. A ewer from Rheren 
