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the Museum. Mr. James W. Gidley examined the Pleistocene cave 
deposit at Cumberland, Md., on several occasions, and secured much 
interesting material, including a nearly complete skeleton of a large 
peccary-like animal, besides many good skulls of this and other 
species, some of which had not previously been discovered. He also 
visited a cave deposit at Renick, W. Va., on the Green Brier River, 
where specimens similar to those found at Cumberland, were col- 
lected. A few short trips were made by Mr. Norman H. Boss and Mr. 
William Palmer to the Miocene marl deposit in the vicinity of 
Chesapeake Beach, Md., where they obtained some 30 specimens of 
fossil cetaceans, including one fine porpoise skeleton and _ several 
more or less complete skulls of porpoises and whales. 
Dr. E. T. Wherry spent three weeks during June, 1914, under the 
auspices of the Geological Survey in areal mapping for the folio 
publication of the Reading and Allentown quadrangles in eastern 
Pennsylvania. 
THE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES. 
Textiles —aAs was to be expected, with the spread of information 
as to the organization and activities of this division, so recently 
reestablished, there was a considerable increase during last year, both 
in the number of accessions and in the general value of the material 
received, manufacturers and others entering cordially into the 
scheme of building up a collection that would be both comprehensive 
in its scope and practical in its purposes. Following are the more 
important of the accessions, all of which were of the nature of gifts 
except where otherwise stated: 
The Messrs. Cheney Bros., of South Manchester, Conn., added 
to their already important exhibition a large series of specimens 
illustrating steps in the processes followed in weaving, printing, 
and finishing silk goods; examples of silk scarfs made up from 
standard weaves of tie silks, and woven and knit cravats both fin- 
ished and as they come from the loom or knitting machines; printed 
silk flags made during the presidential campaign of James G. Blaine, 
being among the earliest prints made on silk by copper rollers; and 
specimens of various kinds of taffeta, satin, grosgrain, ottoman, and 
velvet ribbons. This firm also presented the oldest model of the 
Grant silk reel, a machine invented in 1882 by James Munroe Grant 
while employed in the Hartford mill of the Cheney Bros., by 
means of which the thread forming the skein is crossed at regular 
intervals, the cross in the skein preventing tangling during dyeing 
and subsequent handling. 
Samples of surface-printed broad silks, woven, printed, and fin- 
ished in the American plant of the Duplan Silk Co., in New York, 
from designs prepared in the Martine School of Decorative Art, 
