REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 25 
118 diplomas and announcements of honor conferred by universities 
and other learned bodies for distinction in science. A portrait in oil 
of Prof. Newcomb, by C. H. L. Macdonald, has been placed tem- 
porarily in the Museum by Mrs. Newcomb. The uniform coat worn 
by Admiral Farragut while lashed to the rigging of the ship Hartford 
during the battle of Mobile Bay, August 4, 1864, was presented by 
Mrs. Pauline Philip Lapidge, of Rockville Center, New York; and a 
silver snuffbox given by President Millard Fillmore to his wife in 
1862 was donated by Mrs. Florence A. Rockwell Judd, of New York 
City. 
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America added, 
among other objects, to its collection of relics deposited in the 
Museum a silver baptismal basin which was sent from Holland in 
1694 to the first Dutch church on Manhattan Island. The heirs of 
Mrs. Virginia L. W. Fox presented the Gustavus Vasa Fox collection 
of books illustrating Russian life and history. Printed, for the most 
part, in the Russian language, these works are remarkable for their 
handsome bindings and exceedingly fine engravings. Mrs. Julian 
James, of Washington, added to her loan collection 51 pieces of silver 
and glassware and two miniatures belonging to the Bailey-Myers- 
Mason family, and a sword belt and scabbard. Sixteen American 
historical paintings by Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt 
Peale, and other noted artists were lent by Dr. George Reuling, of 
Baltimore, Maryland. A portrait in oil of Dr. Edward Maynard, by 
his son, George W. Maynard, of New York City, was presented by 
the artist. Seven handsome silver trophies, won in rifle competition 
by the Marine Corps of the United States Navy, and a silver cup, won 
by a boat crew of the marines of the U.S. S. Illinois, were received on 
deposit. Five pieces of silver—two punch bowls, two cups, and one 
pitcher—presented to the late Gen. Henry C. Corbin by his fellow 
army officers in 1901, were lent by Mrs. Corbin. 
An especially noteworthy accession was a bronze tablet 7 feet wide 
by 14 feet high, showing life-size relief figures of Edward F. Beale 
and Kit Carson, and commemorating an incident of the war with 
Mexico, which is explained in the inscription on the tablet as follows: 
“The army sent from Santa Fe to occupy California was met and 
defeated by the Mexicans at San Pasquale. The American forces 
were driven upon a butte in the desert, on which there was no water, 
and there surrounded by the Mexican forces. Edward F. Beale and 
Kit Carson, both famous explorers of the West, volunteered to get 
through the Mexican lines and get reinforcements from Stockton’s 
fleet at San Diego. They succeeded in crawling past three cordons 
of Mexican sentries in the night, and by hiding in ravines in the day 
and travelling by night they reached Stockton’s fleet after enduring 
great hardships.”’ This tablet, which is of high artistic design, was 
