EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, ;912. ^5 



already indebted for eight examples of these instruments, there were 

 received as a gift three aluminum sundials, one calculated for the 

 latitude of Santiago, Chile, one for the Equator, and a vertical form 

 for the latitude of Moscow, Eussia ; and also the model of a sundial 

 with a signaling gun, calculated for the latitude of New Plymouth, 

 New Zealand, the dial of which is graduated in Koman numerals and 

 inscribed " Sol est gloria mundi." The cannon, 3|- inches long, is 

 fitted with an adjustable aluminum frame carrying a glass lens for 

 focusing the sun's rays on the powder in the touchhole. Important 

 donations, received from the makers, were a comptometer or calcu- 

 lating machine made by Mr. D. E. Felt in 1886 and used by Joseph 

 S. McCoy, actuary of the United States Treasury, from 1889 to 1909, 

 a comptograph or adding-printing machine made bj'^ Felt & Tarrant, 

 and a modern commercial comptometer made by the Felt & Tarrant 

 Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, 111., in 1912. 



The additions to the collection of firearms were many and valuable. 

 The War Department deposited 45 rare military muskets, rifles, and 

 carbines of both Government and private manufacture, among them 

 being numerous types used by the United States xVrmy ; one Savage 

 and two Colt automatic pistols, including the latest Colt military 

 model, fitted with a detachable magazine and adopted for the Army 

 on March 9, 1911 ; and a Krag-Jorgensen rifle, model of 1898, made 

 at the Springfield Armory and used in the Army prior to the intro- 

 duction of the improved Springfield magazine rifle. A selection of 

 16 guns was contributed by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

 of New Haven, Conn., as an addition to the exhibit of arms made 

 by that company and its predecessors, which now comprises 29 

 examples illustrating the development of an important class of mili- 

 tary and sporting weapons from 1854 to the present time. Capt. 

 J. R. R. Hannay, United States Army, placed in the Museum as a 

 loan a collection of rifles and shotguns, small cannon of Spanish 

 make, and knives and swords, obtained by him Avhile on duty in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



The model of a Morse telegraph instrument known as the " harp 

 register," presented by Dr. James Johnson Clark, of Washington, 

 represents a form made in 1846^7 by William Clark & Son, of 

 Philadelphia, the harp design being by Mr. James D. Reid. This 

 was the first Morse register in which the different parts of the mech- 

 anism were supported in solid side plates. Other noteworthy acqui- 

 sitions were a standard Victor talking machine, model of 1911, desig- 

 nated as the " Victor -Victrola, Style IX," presented by the Victor 

 Talking Machine Co., of Camden, N. J. ; 8 typical watch movements 

 of American and foreign makes, donated by Mr. W. E. Emory, of 

 Washington ; models of a Pullman palace car and of a walking-beam 



