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accepted : A late 18th-century drawing room from the Thomas Han- 

 cock house, Worcester, Mass., a gift of Mrs. Adelaide K. Bullen; 

 paneled wall and woodwork from the Richard Dole house, Newbury, 

 Mass. (about 1740) , a gift of Mrs. Florence Evans Bushee ; carved and 

 decorated architectural woodwork by Samuel Field Mclntire, from 

 the interior of "Oak Hill," Peabody, Mass. (1813-14), a gift of the 

 Jordan Marsh Co.; an original decorative finial, salvaged from the 

 steeple of the Old North Church, Boston, after the damage by a hurri- 

 cane in 1954, gift of the Lantern League of the Old North Church. 



Miss Elsie Howland Quinby generously converted her loan of 118 

 specimens of English and American furniture and glass to a gift. 

 Col. and Mrs. Robert P. Hare gave two 17th-century English back 

 stools and a set of six American Sheraton "fancy" chairs. Mrs. 

 George Maurice Morris presented, among several other gifts, 

 a carved walnut tray and brass candlestick of about 1760. Mr. and Mrs. 

 George H. Watson donated an early 19th-century Windsor settee, with 

 original paint and stenciling, and an extraordinary hollow-tree-trunk 

 grain barrel. Through the Virgil M. Hillyer fund a North Devon- 

 shire pottery oven from Bideford, England, was purchased. 



Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post was the donor of the only cigar- 

 store wooden Indian ever acquired by the Museum. Several important 

 examples of 18th- and 19th-century American blown glass were pre- 

 sented by W. Daniel Quattlebaum. These include New York, New 

 Jersey, and New England types, as well as a rare cut-glass tumbler 

 with an embedded ceramic cameo bust of Lafayette, made at the Bake- 

 well works in Pittsburgh on the occasion of Lafayette's visit to Amer- 

 ica in 1824. An entire collection of 173 glass paperweights, mostly of 

 European and American origin, was the gift of Aaron Straus. 



In order to augment the exhibits in the hall "Everyday Life in 

 Early America," several large collections were accepted as loans. In 

 addition to her previous gift of more than 1,600 objects, Mrs. Arthur 

 M. Greenwood lent 326 specimens of Americana, including 22 ex- 

 amples of primarily American 17th- and 18th-century silver, rare 

 children's books and hornbooks, Indian captivity accounts and broad- 

 sides, numerous dolls, and many articles of domestic use. Two speci- 

 mens of North Devonshire pottery excavated at Jamestown, Va., were 

 lent by the National Park Service. 



In exchange with the Institute and Museum of Anthropology, 

 Moscow State University, the division of physical anthropology re- 

 ceived a cast of a child's skull and lower jaw from the Mousterian cul- 

 tural period of the Crimea. The Moscow State University received 

 a cast of the Tepexpan skull in return. This exchange resulted from 

 a visit by the Russian delegation following the Fifth International 

 Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology in Philadelphia. 



