28 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1918. 



Grandes, "Mexico, were donated by Miss Edith Symington, and an- 

 tique pottery with glaze color designs from Arizona by Mr. Victor J. 

 Evans. The Roj'al Ontario Museum of Archeology, Toronto, con- 

 tributed, by exchange, important Old World archeological objects, 

 including Babylonian inscribed cuneiform tablets, stone implements 

 from Egypt, France, and England, bronze and iron implements 

 from Greece and Italy, besides Egyptian pottery, beads, coptic cloth, 

 and arrowheads. A unique roasting spit found near the Colosseum, 

 a marble head of Hercules, and some Roman coins were among the 

 objects donated by Capt. Clarence Wiener of the British Army; 

 of particular interest also were a bronze lamp, a rosary of Ken- 

 tucky coffee beans, and a prayer book and selections from the Scrip- 

 tures arranged for Jews serving in the Army and Navy of the 

 United States. 



The division of physical anthropology was enriched by Indian 

 skulls and other bones from Alaska, Florida, Illinois, and the Navaho 

 Reservation, a skull from the French Congo, an interesting cranium 

 from the Malay Archipelago, a skull and part of skeleton of an 

 Eskimo, various other skeletal specimens, and plastic restorations of 

 certain supposedly early man. 



The original full-sized Langley flying machine of 1903 and a dupli- 

 cate set of cylinders for the engine were deposited in the Museum 

 by the Institution. Begun by former Secretary S. P. Langley for the 

 War Department in 1898, in the interest of national defense, this 

 machine has been demonstrated to be the first aeroplane constructed 

 capable of sustained free flight carrying a man. 



To the mechanical collections were added also revolvers and swords 

 of Santo Domingo manufacture: modern firearms of English and 

 American make, including a British Enfield rifle, model of 1914, and 

 an up-to-date high-power sporting rifle; three guns which belonged to 

 the late William Cost Johnson, Member of Congress from Maryland, 

 1833-1843; primitive appliances used with sporting rifles from 1840 

 to 1870; a crude iron box with flintlock attachment designed for firing 

 an explosive ; molds for casting lead bullets; 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. 



Mr. Hugo Worch added 26 pieces to his previous munificent dona- 

 tion illustrating the history and development of the pianoforte, and 

 including dulcimers, spinets, clavichords, harpsichords, and organs, 

 increasing the extent of this notable collection to 143 instruments. 



The J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis Memorial Collection was 

 increased by an extensive series of articles in glass, porcelain, silver, 

 and embroidered handkerchiefs and other textiles. Examples of 

 Venetian glass, showing miniature portraits and landscapes by the 



