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An important addition to the division of graphic arts consisted of 

 a set of 42 volumes of Voltaire's works, bound in full Persian 

 morocco, reproducing in 15 (lesions many of the rare and beauti- 

 fully bound books of the courts of Europe. It was the work of the 

 St. Hubert's Guild of Art Craftsmen, Akron, Ohio, by whom it was 

 presented. Among the accessions in photography were 10 colored 

 photographs of the normal solar spectrum, purchased from Prof. 

 J. F. Ames, of Johns Hopkins University; a color photograph made 

 and presented by Mr. M. Miley, of Lexington, Virginia; 12 photo- 

 graphs in velox, royal velox, and royal bromide, the gift of the East- 

 man Company, of Rochester. New York; and a landscape in velox, 

 contributed by E. J. Pullman, of Washington. 



Among muscial instruments the principal accession was a church 

 organ, said to have been in this country two hundred and three years. 

 It was presented by the vestry of St. Thomas Church, Hancock, 

 Maryland, from which it was recently removed. Especially note- 

 worthy among the additions to the division of medicine was a series 

 of photographs of eminent American physicians, who have been 

 prominently connected with the progress of medicine and surgery. 

 The original pictures were obtained from many sources, and the 

 copies made in the photographic laboratory of the Museum. 



The division of history received 63 permanent accessions and 13 

 loans. The most important of the former consisted of personal relics 

 of the late Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley, the gift of his family 

 to the Smithsonian Institution. They comprise a number of pieces 

 of apparatus of his own devising, illustrating some of his early 

 work, besides 15 medals. 77 diplomas, and other objects, all of which 

 have been arranged in one of the cases in the hall of history. To the 

 already large series of memorials of soldiers and sailors of the United 

 States there were added a sword presented to Rear-Admiral Shubrick 

 for distinguished services on the ship Constitution, lent by his grand- 

 daughter, Mrs. T. F. Bayard ; the commissions of General Kilpatrick, 

 lent by his daughter, Mrs. Henry H. Morgan; a silver service of 

 Commodore John Kelly, presented by his daughter. Mrs. Ellen M. 

 Davis; the army uniform of Lieut. C. R. Carville, presented by Mrs. 

 E. C. Fiedler, and the sword carried by Col. zEneas Mackay, aid-de- 

 camp to Alexander Macomb, U. S. Army, in the war of 1812, Semi- 

 nole war, and the war with Mexico, presented by Miss Cornelia 

 McK. Bogy. 



Among the accessions to the division of historic religions were a 

 collection of lamps, amulets, and embroideries used in Jewish relig- 

 ious life, deposited by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat, of Xew York; a 

 Jewish prayer cap, lent by Dr. Harry Friedenwald, of Baltimore, 

 Maryland ; two sets of Catholic priests' vestments, one presented by 

 the Rev. Joseph Mendl, of Montclair, the other by the Fev. P. T. 



