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From the Department of the Navy two oil portraits were obtained 

 by transfer. One is of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and was 

 painted in 1815 by John Wesley Jarvis for Mr. W. B. Morse, of 

 New York; the other is of Commodore Thomas Macdonough and is 

 supposed to be by the same artist. 



The numismatic collection was increased by two important addi- 

 tions. The first consisted of 312 pieces representing the coinage of 

 Poland from the time of Vladislas Jagiello, in 1386, to 1810, besides 

 two medals relating to notable events in the history of Poland, and 

 was presented by the Polish National Alliance of the United States of 

 North America, through its board of directors and president, Mr. 

 M. B. Steczynski, of Chicago, 111. In accordance with the act of 

 donation of the society, of which an illuminated copy accompanied 

 the collection, the contribution was made " in the name of about 

 100,000 men and women of Polish extraction now citizens of the 

 United States as a token of loyalty to this country and in commem- 

 oration of the friendship between the Republic of Poland and the 

 United States in the second half of the eighteenth century as ex- 

 pressed in the participation of Kosciusko and Pulaski in the War 

 of the American Revolution." The other collection, a gift from Mr. 

 Frank N. Meyer, of the Department of Agriculture, comprised 297 

 antique copper coins of Asia, besides 88 coins of silver, nickel, and 

 copper from other foreign sources. 



The loans to the division, were, like the gifts, both varied and note- 

 worthy. The most prominent consisted of many memorials of the late 

 Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, United States Navy, deposited 

 by Mrs. Schley, Capt. T. Franklin Schley, United States Army, Mrs. 

 R. M. Stuart Wortley, and Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, and included 

 a nimiber of gold and jeweled medals and badges, as well as other ob- 

 jects, presented to Admiral Schley in recognition of achievements 

 in the naval service from 1861 to 1901. Notable among these are the 

 gold medal of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, and a gold 

 watch and chain from the State of Maryland, in acknowledgment 

 of his services as commander of the expedition which, in 1884, res- 

 cued the survivors of the Greely Arctic expedition at Cape Sabine, 

 Grinnell Land; a gold medal given by the King of Sweden and 

 Norway in 1890, when commanding the U. S. S. Baltimore, which 

 in that year conveyed the remains of John Ericsson to Sweden ; and 

 the following testimonials for services during the Spanish-American 

 War : A gold medal set with diamonds, from the State of Maryland ; 

 a gold medal set with diamonds and rubies, from the Junior Order 

 of United American Mechanics of the State of Maryland; a gold- 

 mounted and jeweled sword with dress belt, from the people of the 

 State of Pennsylvania; a silver tea set from admirers in the State 



