18 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



Texas, and Dartmouth College exchanged six primitive jawless ostra- 

 coderms from Oesel Island in the Baltic. An exchange of value, con- 

 sisting of nine jaws and maxillae of primitive perissodactyls and artio- 

 dactyls, was obtained from the Museum de Sciences Naturelles, Lyon, 

 France. 



Engineering and Industries. — In connection with the development 

 of the new exhibit of telephony, about 20 original instruments showing 

 the evolution of the telephone from 1880 to the present day were added 

 to the collections of the division of engineering. These specimens 

 were donated by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Stromberg-Carlson Co., 

 the Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, North Electric Co., Western Elec- 

 tric Co., and the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. 



All sections in the division received important new accessions in 

 preparation for exhibition in the Museum of History and Technology. 

 A specimen of particular historical interest added as a loan to the 

 collection of machine tools is a Robertson milling machine of 1852, 

 from Yale University. The section of light machinery acquired a 

 fine French astronomical clock, of about 1800, featuring a planetarium 

 enclosed in a glass sphere etched with the constellations, thus exhibit- 

 ing particularly well the astronomical associations of timekeeping. 

 A full-sized pirogue, made in the manner of the Acadians, was pre- 

 sented to the transportation section by Esso Standard Oil Co., together 

 with a film recording the process of its fabrication. An elegant 

 Queensbody basket phaeton was given by Mrs. William A. Frailey. 

 The collection relating to instructional mathematics was augmented 

 considerably with the receipt, from Prof. Frances E. Baker, of a set of 

 131 mathematical models. 



The division of medicine and public health added to its collection 

 the third X-ray tube of the discoverer of X-rays, Wilhelm Konrad 

 Roentgen, a gift of the General Electric Co. For the hospital exhibit 

 in the Museum of History and Technology, a complete set of hospital 

 ward fixtures of about 1900 was received from the Massachusetts Gen- 

 eral Hospital. The materia medica collection obtained a number of 

 additional examples of patent medicines, such as Bateman's Pectoral 

 Drops, presented by Ronald R. McCandless, Owen H. Waller, and 

 A. P. Whealton ; Godfrey's Cordial, presented by Robert Russell and 

 A. P. Whealton; and Porter's Curative Sugar Pills, from Samuel 

 A. Aker, David E. Kass, and George C. Kass. 



Among the more important specimens acquired by the division of 

 crafts and industries is an 18th-century Don Quixote tapestry pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, a rustic copperplate printed fabric 

 dated 1761, from Mrs. Betty H. Harriman; and a copperplate print 

 stitched into a quilt top, from Mrs. Nicholas Satterlee. In the section 

 of agriculture, a model of the Hussey reaper of 1833 was constructed by 



