62 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



There was also secured a large and representative series of archeo- 

 logical specimens, part of a bequest to the U. S. National Museum, in 

 1898, b} T the late I. H. Harris, of Waynesville, Ohio. The archeo- 

 logical portion was placed in the division of prehistoric archeology, 

 and consists mainly of stone implements, including hammer stones, 

 pestles, mortars, grooved axes, polished hatchets, discoidal stones, 

 polished stone amulets, beads, pipes, leaf-shaped blades, arrow points 

 and spearheads, scrapers, drills, shell beads, carvings, and a limited 

 number of copper implements and ornaments. A catalogue was fur- 

 nished, giving exact data for a portion of the collection. A number 

 of other specimens had the locality marked upon them, and from this 

 source as well as from letters and memoranda, it is shown that the 

 material was obtained mainly from a few spots in the Miami Valley, 

 Ohio. There is, in addition, a typical series of earthenware vessels 

 From mounds near Charleston. Missouri. The whole embraces 8,533 

 numbers, although several lots of small flakes and fragments arc 

 counted as one number. 



The ethnological and historical collections from the Philippine 

 Islands presented to the Museum by Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, 

 are especially interesting and valuable from the fact that they were 

 secured personally in the campaign against the Moros of Mindanao by 

 an experienced observer. They comprise manj^ specimens not hereto- 

 fore in the National Museum, and are rich in weapons, basketry, and 

 the fine brasswork for which the Moros are so famous. 



An important addition to the historical division is the gilt dress 

 sword presented to (Ten. Jacob Brown by the State of New York for 

 services in the war of 1812. This sword was received as a gift from 

 his grandson, Nathan Brown Chase. 



Other interesting specimens received during the year are a serenato 

 saxophone, with accessories and instructions, presented by William 

 Tonk & Bro., of New York, which fills a niche in the collection of 

 musical instruments; a rare flintlock pistol with folding bayonet, 

 made by Miles, London, and presented by Mr. Paul E. Beckwith. 



A collection of Morse keys, insulators, and other important his- 

 torical apparatus used on telegraph lines in the United States about 

 1860, was presented by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company through 

 C. E. McKim, superintendent of telegraphs at Pittsburg; a telegraph 

 switch, invented about 1855 by E. AY. Culgan, of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and used generally throughout the United States up to 1865, 

 presented by Mr. C. S. Greer, of Zanesville, Ohio; a series of speci- 

 mens illustrating the development of the hand camera, donated by the 

 Eastman Kodak Company, of Rochester, New York; a collection of 

 native firearms from the Philippine Islands, presented by the President 

 of the United States; and a series of heliogravures of Hellenistic por- 



