32 REPORT OF "national MUSEUM, 1912. 



of Maryland ; silver loving cups from the citizens of Atlanta, Ga., 

 the city of Dallas, Tex., and the Chamber of Commerce and citizens 

 of Knoxville, Tenn. ; a large silver centerpiece, consisting of a basin, 

 vase, and candelabra, from the citizens of Memphis, Tenn. ; and 

 7 pieces of silverware, part of a service of 69 pieces, made from coin 

 recovered from the wreck of the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon^ 

 from various admirers. The collection also contains two jeweled 

 and golcl-monnted swords, two loving cnps, and a number of gold 

 and jeweled badges, from fraternal organizations with which Ad- 

 miral Schley Avas affiliated; two bronze medals on ribbons, from the 

 United States Government for services during the Civil War and 

 the Spanish-Amxerican War; a bronze statuette, presented by the 

 citizens of Binghamton, N. Y., on the occasion of his visit to that 

 city in 1902 ; a bronze statuette from the French Society for Marine 

 Steam Transportation, in recognition of services in saAdng the French 

 steamer Bretagne from disaster off the coast of Brazil, Avhile in com- 

 mand of the South Atlantic Squadron in 1900; a commodore's pen- 

 nant flown on the U. S. S. BrooMyn during the battle of Santiago, 

 July 3, 1898; and his service sword and scabbard and Iavo uniforms. 

 To Mrs. John Cropper, of Washington, the Museum is under obli- 

 gations for the loan of many interesting objects, including oil paint- 

 ings and furniture. Among the paintings are a portrait of Brig. 

 Gen. John Cropper, of the Virginia State Militia, who served with 

 distinction as colonel in the Continental Army during the War of 

 the Revolution, and one of his wife, Catherine Bayly Cropper, both 

 executed by Charles Willson Peale in 1792; portraits of Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Cropper, of Washington, painted by the Italian artist Michele 

 Gordigiani in 1883; the historical picture by James Peale, entitled 

 " Captain Allan McLane and the British Dragoons,'' illustrating 

 an incident near Frankford, Pa., during the War of the Revolution, 

 when Capt. McLane, on being attacked by three British dragoons, 

 killed one, severely wounded another, and compelled the third to 

 retire; and a portrait, as passed midshipman, of Allan McLane, who 

 served in the United States Navy from 1831 to 1852, attributed to 

 Thomas Le Clear. The principal articles of furniture are as follows : 

 A large mahogany table used in the White House from about 1835 

 to 1905; a lady's French dressing table of the time of Louis XV; 

 two armchairs of French make of about the period of the First 

 Empire, once owned by James Monroe; a French sofa and clock of 

 i\\Q. period of the First Empire; an English mahogany four-poster 

 bedstead of the latter half of the eighteenth century; an English 

 sideboard, Sheraton style, and mahogany w4ne chest of the last 

 quarter of the eighteenth century; a mahogany chair, formerly the 

 property of Alexander Hamilton; two mahogany armchairs, once 



