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Shaw, of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, supplemented the old rope ma- 

 chine he donated last year by seven specimens of twisted yarns and 

 ropes and three samples of flax and jute. Two small looms of the 

 types employed in producing Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries and 

 used by her husband in illustrating his lectures on tapestry, were pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Charles M. Ffoulke, of Washington, together with a 

 repairing board used in France for mending such fabrics. 



Some of the first embroidery machines brought to the . United 

 States from Europe are at present doing war work by embroidering 

 service insignia for the United States Government. The Kursheedt 

 Manufacturing Co., of New York City, which has for many years 

 produced official emblems and such distinguishing marks for the 

 United States Army and Navy, has contributed 107 specimens of the 

 official emblems of the United States Army, the United States Navy, 

 the Food Administration, and the Boy Scouts of America, em- 

 broidered by the Sauer and Schiffli machines on standard uniform 

 fabrics. The series, including rating badges and service insignia of 

 petty officers of the Navy and noncommissioned officers and privates 

 of the Army, was carefully labeled to show the rank and service 

 represented by each specimen, and mounted in the order of precedence 

 observed when the men wearing such insignia are on active duty. It 

 makes a most instructive and popular exhibit. 



To Mr. W. E. Safford, of Washington, the Museum is indebted for 

 the loan of three pieces of beautiful ancient fabrics and a work- 

 basket containing implements for spinning cotton obtained by him 

 from prehistoric graves near Ancon, Peru, and a gold-embroidered 

 Venetian cope showing very fine workmanship. Other foreign hand- 

 decorated textiles were added to the collections through the loan, by 

 Mrs. L. M. Greene, Washington City, of a heavily embroidered 

 Chinese crepe shawl, and by the Rev. John W. Quinton, Harpers 

 Ferry, West Virginia, of a block-printed silk crepe shawl. 



Examples of most painstaking needlework were received in the 

 form of an embroidered picture, depicting a Norwegian landscape, 

 done in shaded silks and lent by Mrs. Frith j of Hiortdahl, Hyatts- 

 ville, Maryland, and seven embroidered medallions, representing coins 

 of the United States, set in two star-shaped pieces of tatting, the 

 work and gift of Miss Nancy Millholland Wharton, of Cumberland, 

 Maryland. 



The accessions of specimens other than textiles, woods, and medi- 

 cines, received during the year, were the loan by Dr. Riley D. Moore, 

 of Washington, of 42 specimens of old walrus and mastodon ivory, 

 suitable for mounting as jewelry, collected by Dr. Moore in Alaska; 

 the gift by Mr. James Davis of Shipman, Virginia, of two nests of 

 the chimney swift, for comparison with the edible nests of the Chinese 



