22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Jacob Steiner; a collection of primitive appliances used in the 

 United States with sporting rifles from about 1840 to 1870, includ- 

 ing implements for casting lead bullets of various sizes, given by 

 Mrs. Lucy J. Maynard ; a mold made of a block of steatite for cast- 

 ing lead bullets, the gift of Mr. George Marshall; and a crude iron 

 box with a flintlock attachment designed for firing an explosive, 

 presented by Mr. Charles F. Cadle. Lieut. Col. Thorpe also lent a 

 revolving gun of the Lefaucheux type, and Gen. W. H. Carter, United 

 States Army, lent a Flobert target pistol and three primitive guns 

 made up of parts from various sources. 



The few pieces added by purchase, to supply gaps in the collec- 

 tions, included two cavalry swords, a Japanese sword, an Arabian 

 sword, a Beals revolver, an English shotgun, three flintlock pistols, 

 a pepper-box pistol of American make, a signal pistol used by the 

 United States Navy in 1884, and a blunderbuss said to have been 

 used in defending mail coaches running between Baltimore and 

 Washington in the olden time. 



The investigations relating to the various subjects that come within 

 the scope of this division have resulted not only in securing many 

 interesting specimens for the Museum, but in the acquisition of valu- 

 able information regarding the existence and locality of other especi- 

 ally desirable objects yet to be acquired. 



Musical instruments. — This section was enriched by further im- 

 portant additions to the generous gift of Mr. Hugo Worch, as fol- 

 lows : Five American pianos and one organ, one of the pianos being 

 the work of Washington's pioneer maker, Johann Francis Kahl; 

 seven English pianos, one harpsichord, and one spinet; two German 

 hammerclaviers and three clavichords; two Austrian grand pianos 

 and one hammercla vier ; one Belgian spinet and two spinets of which 

 the maker could not be identified. In addition an antique ivory flute 

 was donated by Mrs. Thomas Kelly Boggs. 



The custodian of the collections, Mr. E. H. Hawley, practically 

 completed his descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the 

 Museum, and was extending it to include musical instruments else- 

 where. 



Ceramics. — Much material of interest was added to this section, 

 but reference can only be made to a portion. An extensive collec- 

 tion of articles in glass, porcelain, and silver, and especially rich in 

 early Bohemian glass, was presented b} T Mrs. Charlotte Ellis Dan- 

 forth in memory of her father and mother, J. Lewis Ellis and Olive 

 M. Ellis. From Cavaliere Salvatore Arbib, through the American 

 consul at Venice, B. Harvey Carroll, jr., was received some won- 

 derful examples of Venetian glass. These consisted of 29 small 

 glass cylinders, showing an astonishing series of miniature portraits, 

 landscapes, etc., made in 1840-1850, by Jacopo Franchini, a famous 



