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University of Pennsylvania in 1898, the other when receiving the. 

 degree of Doctor of Laws from McGill University in 1900 ; a plioto- 

 graph by Gutekunst, and an autograph card. 



Samuel Sullivan Cox, for a long period Representative in Con- 

 gress and at one time American Minister to Turkey, and Mrs. Cox 

 are represented by three important testimonials donated in their 

 name by Mrs. Elizabeth Hardenbergh, sister of the latter. They con- 

 sist of two decorations, one of the Order of the Medjidieh, the other 

 of the Order of the Shefakat, conferred, respectively, upon Mr. and 

 Mrs. Cox by the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II ; and of a silver 

 memorial vase presented to Mrs. Cox by the members of the Life 

 Saving Service of the United States in recognition of the successful 

 efforts of Mr. Cox in establishing and maintaining that service. 



Several memorials of Commander Harry Herbert Hosley, United 

 States Navy, received from Mrs. Hosley as a gift, are as follows : A 

 dress sword with scabbard and belt, presented to Commander Hosley 

 by members of the Larchmont Yacht Club on his return from towing 

 the dry dock Dewey from Chesapeake Bay to the Philippine Islands, 

 and four official cablegrams of congratulation on the successful com- 

 pletion of this task ; a bronze service medal awarded him by the United 

 States Government, and a gold and enameled badge of the Naval 

 Order of the United States. The sword and cablegrams had pre- 

 viously been in the Museum as a loan from Mrs. Hosle}^ 



Other noteworthy contributions of relics were the wedding dress 

 worn by Julia Ward on the occasion of her marriage to Dr. Samuel 

 Griclle}^ Howe, on April 23, 1843, comprising the waist, skirt, and 

 shawl of embroidered muslin, and a long Brussels lace veil, the gift 

 of Mrs. Plowe's daughter, Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott; the United 

 States Army uniform coat worn by Gen. George A. Custer at the 

 ceremony of his marriage, February 9, 1864, and a buckskin gauntlet 

 and coat and a helmet used by him when lieutenant colonel of the 

 Seventh Cavalry, United States Army, while campaigning against 

 the Indians of the western plains, presented by Mrs. Elizabeth B. 

 Custer; a craj^on portrait of Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote, 

 United States Navy, and three oil paintings by a Chinese artist de- 

 picting the engagement between the United States ships, commanded 

 by Admiral Foote, and the barrier forts near Canton, China, in 1856, 

 presented by Mrs. Kate N. Foote ; a necklace, tw^o brooches, and two 

 pairs of earrings made of hair mounted in gold, belonging to a mem- 

 ber of the Alsop family of Connecticut during the latter part of the 

 eighteenth century, donated by Miss Mary Alsop Cryder, of Wash- 

 ington; and a mahogany armchair upholstered in green silk, owned 

 and personally used by the Marquis de Lafayette near the close of 

 his life, the gift of the Marquise Arconati-Visconti, of Paris, France, 



