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the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, presented to him by the 

 Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1910; and three silver lov- 

 ing cups presented by the cities of Bangor, Portland and South 

 Portland, Maine, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association of New 

 York City. The flag of the Navy League of New York City, which 

 was also displayed at the North Pole by Admiral Peary, was de- 

 posited by the Admiral Trenchard Section 73 of the League, through 

 Mr. Edward E. Trenchard, of Babylon, New York, and has been 

 installed in connection with the Peary objects. 



A valuable collection of memorials of the Salter and Codwise 

 families of Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey, 

 lent by Miss Louise Salter Codwise, of Kingston, New York, in- 

 cludes three miniatures on ivory in gold frames, two of which are 

 set with precious stones, the portraits being of Manasseh Salter. 

 Harriette Matilda Spencer Salter, and Elisha Rogers Codwise; an 

 ivory fan, a gold watch and key, a gold locket, necklace, bracelet 

 and earrings of pearls, two pearl stick pins, a sampler, two hand- 

 kerchiefs and case of silk, and articles of the toilet ; and also five 

 pieces of rare old lace, 18 foreign coins and a pack of Torot cards. 

 To her already large loan collection of memorials of the Bailey- 

 Myers-Mason family, important additions were made by Mrs. Julian 

 James, of Washington, comprising two green Bohemian cut-glass 

 toilet pitchers, two shell back-combs, a cap of silk and lace, a silver 

 fork and three silver spoons; four gold medals conferred on Lieut. 

 Commander Theodoras Bailey Mason Myers, United States Navy, 

 and a gold riding whip, meerschaum pipe, and six naval buttons 

 that had belonged to him; a photograph of the commission of Hugh 

 C. Mason as captain of militia in the Colony of Massachusetts, 1655, 

 and six daguerreotypes of members of the Bailey-Myers-Mason 

 family. 



The Gustavus Vasa Fox collection was increased by a series of 

 autographed photographs of Russian nobles of the court of Alex- 

 ander II, presented to Mr. Fox in 1866, many manuscripts relating 

 to the Fox mission to Russia, a number of Russian books and pam- 

 phlets, two bronze medals and two fragments of historic rocks. 

 A service sword, with scabbard and belt, used during the Spanish- 

 American War by Capt. (afterwards Rear Admiral) John W. Philip, 

 United States Navy, and a pair of field glasses found by Captain 

 Philip on board the Spanish battleship Maria Theresa after the en- 

 gagement off Santiago in 1898, were deposited by Mr. Barrett 

 Philip, of Washington. Mrs. Emma K. Hanvey, of Washington, 

 lent 14 examples of old German glass painted in colored enamels 

 with coats of arms, dates and historic names, and also two minia- 

 tures, a silver ornament in the form of a coach, a silver snuffbox, 



