86 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914, 
Museum, to the series already on hand greatly increased the impor- 
tance of the exhibit illustrating the development of the screw pro- 
peller from 1681 to 1890. A circular sundial adapted for the latitude 
of Peking, China, 40° north, was received as a gift from Mr. Claude 
L. Woolley, of Baltimore, Md. It is entirely inscribed in Chinese 
characters, including the motto ‘“ With ceremony he delivered to the 
people the reckoning of time,” taken from the Book of History, and 
referring to the work of Yao, who first introduced the republican 
form of government into China, about 2000 B. C. For these in- 
scriptions both Mr. Woolley and the Museum are indebted to Mr. 
Yung Kwai, counselor of the Chinese Legation at Washington. A 
gold medal presented to Joshua Follensbee, chief engineer, United 
States Navy, by the Chamber of Commerce and citizens of New 
York, in commemoration of the part taken by him in laying the 
first submarine telegraph cable between England and America, in 
1858, was lent by Mr. Frank Follensbee, of Clarendon, Va.; and a set 
of German coin scales made by Johann Daniel Ellinghaus, in 
Radevormwalde, Germany, which had been in the possession of 
the Lindinger family, of Buckeburg, Germany, for about 250 years, 
was purchased. 
The following firearms were presented: One Ross magazine sport- 
ing rifle, model of 1910, caliber .28, the magazine holding four car- 
tridges, by the Ross Rifle Co., of Quebec, Canada; one Savage maga- 
zine sporting rifle, caliber .22, the magazine holding six cartridges, 
by the Savage Arms Co., of Utica, N. Y.; one Remington repeating 
rifle, caliber .30, with tubular magazine holding six cartridges, and 
one Remington autoloading, five-shot, repeating rifle, caliber .35, by 
the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co., of Ilion, N. Y.; 
one Winchester repeating rifle, model of 1894, caliber .30, with tubu- 
lar magazine holding eight cartridges, and one Winchester repeating 
rifle, model of 1895, caliber .405, with box magazine holding four 
cartridges, by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., of New Haven, 
Conn.; and a single-barrel pistol, caliber .50, percussion cap lock, 
double set-trigger, Damascus barrel, marked “ Dumas A Lyon,” and 
a double-action revolver, caliber .45, marked “G. Mercenier,” by 
Rutgers Ives Hurry, of New York. The War Department deposited 
a United States Army magazine rifle, caliber .30, model of 1903, with 
improvements to 1914; and five guns, a gun barrel, and a case con- 
taining gun barrels were received as a bequest from Miss Lucy H. 
Baird. 
The collections of the division have undergone much change in 
location and arrangement, with attendant improvement in conven- 
ience and effectiveness. They now occupy the north east range, the 
east hall, the nortly east court, and portions of the south east range 
and west hall. Eighteen upright floor cases received during the year 
