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illustrating the development of the United States Navy from 1776 

 to 1920. These include models of the vessels Bon Homme Richard^ 

 Constitution^ Enter frise^ Ohio^ Merrimac^ Hartfm^d^ Monitor^ 

 Benton^ Chicago^ Oregon^ Brooklyn, Winslow, North Carolina, and 

 Lexington. 



A number of valuable additions were made to the numismatic 

 collection. From the Treasury Department were received two 

 specimens each of the United States twenty- dollar gold piece, silver 

 dollar, quarter dollar, dime, nickel, and cent issued in 1923 and in 1924, 

 and a collection of about 100 modern foreign coins including some 

 of the most recent foreign issues. The largest contribution to the 

 coin collection from an individual was the loan from B. M. Comer- 

 ford of Washington, D. C, of a collection of early Irish silver and 

 bronze coins and a series of English maundy money, in all some 

 470 specimens. Four gold medals, two gold badges and two specially 

 designed silver medals awarded to Maj. Levi^is Merriam, United 

 States Army, in recognition of skill in marksmanship were lent by 

 Mrs. Lewis Merriam, of Washington, D. C. 



The War Department lent a silver Medaille d'Honneur des 

 Epidemics which was awarded Capt. Clayton R. Pollan, United 

 States Sanitary Corps, by. the French Government in 1919. The 

 Treasury Department increased the collection of commemorative 

 medals by bronze copies of the medals issued by that department 

 in commemoration of the inauguration of President Warren G. 

 Harding in 1921, of the death of President Harding in 1923, and of 

 the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge in 1923 ; also copies of 

 medals commemorating the appointment of F. E. Scobey as director 

 of the Mint in 1922, and the appointment of R. J. Grant to that 

 position in 1923. From the Jusserand dinner committee was received 

 a bronze copy of the gold medal presented to the Ambassador of 

 the French Republic Jules Jusserand, and Madame Jusserand, by 

 the people of Washington, D. C, on January 10, 1925. The United 

 Daughters of the Confederacy, through Mrs. W. H. Estabrook, con- 

 tributed a bronze cross of honor of the type awarded by that society 

 in recognition of services rendered during the World War. 



The value of the coin and medal collection was further enhanced 

 by the transfer from the Treasury Department to the Museum of 

 about 800 publications concerning the science of numismatics, and 

 varying in scientific importance from standard treatises on various 

 phases of the subject to mere sales catalogues. A large number of 

 bound volumes of numismatic periodicals were included. 



The portrait collection was enlarged by a portrait of Elizabeth 

 Cady Stanton by Anna E. Klumpke, presented by the National 

 American Woman Suffrage Association; portraits of Gen. John J. 



