36 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
gunnery and other classes. Among the models of locomotives are 
those showing the inventions of Asa Whitney, 1840; M. W. Baldwin, 
1842; G. A. Nicholls, 1848; A. Cathcart, 1849; and Ross Wi inans, 1851. 
Sey men inventions of George H. Carlie and William Sellers are like- 
wise illustrated. 
Another notable accession, deposited by Dr. Alexander Graham 
Bell, consists of about 150 pieces of apparatus devised and used by 
him in his earliest experiments to produce a practical speaking tele- 
phone, which resulted in the establishment of the present system of 
the American Bell Telephone Company, now in general use through- 
out the world. The U.S. Geological Survey transferred an important 
collection of typical instruments and appliances such as have been em- 
ployed by the survey, comprising a number of gradienters, alidade, 
alt-azimuth instruments, aneroid barometers, heliotropes, leveling 
rods, odometers of different. forms, two aluminum bench-mark tablets, 
and ten pie ‘es of apparatus used in the water resource branch of the 
service, principally for measuring the flow and velocity of streams. 
Col. A. TH. Russell, U.S. Army, deposited a number of experimental 
magazine rifles illustrating his inventions, which form the basis of the 
magazine rifles now in use in the United States Army, together with 
a number of bronze Spanish mortars and small cannon collected by 
him in the Philippine Islands. From the Bureau of Ordnance, War 
Department, there were received three of the latest, or 1906, pattern 
of army magazine rifles, one United States magazine rifle of the 
model of 1903, with bayonet, complete, and the component parts of a 
similar rifle arranged separately to show the construction and oper- 
ation of this arm. Among the other accessions were 2 English tower 
flint-lock pistols with brass barrels and bell muzzles of superior work- 
manship, lent by Mr. Richard Rathbun; 2 boxes of percussion pills, 
introduced about 1840 and extensively used between the time of the 
flint-lock and percussion-lock guns, obtained from Davis Brothers, 
Kent, Ohio; the engine used in Professor Langley’s full-size aero- 
drome, deposited by the Smithsonian Institution; 6 models of Jap- 
anese fishing boats, transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries; a model 
of a canvas canoe of the type now in general use, presented by the 
Oldtown Canoe Company, Oldtown, Maine; an old bicyele with 
wooden wheels, contributed by Mr. C. Howard Buckler, of Washing- 
ton; an old iron-frame bicycle, donated by Mr. William Sturgis Bige- 
low, of Boston; an old grasshopper bicycle, about 1875 to 1880, pre- 
sented by Mr. Thomas M. Wilkins, of Washington; a Pomo Indian 
Tule boat, a survival of the ancient form, made in 1906 by an old 
Pomo Indian, from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; 
models of Robert Fulton’s steamship Clermont and Fitch’s steamboat, 
by transfer from the State Department; two Starr carbines, dupheate 
models of the steamboats Savannah and Phoenix, and models of a 
