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costumes were acquired by the Museum through the generous cooper- 

 ation of Mrs. Eose G. Hoes. 



The biographical collections have been increased by the gift of a 

 pair of silver-mounted flintlock pistols with leather holsters which 

 were owned during the War of the He volution by Maj. Gen. Charles 

 Lee, of the Continental Army ; a sword, a pair of pistols, and a pair 

 of epaulets owned during the same period by Maj. Jacob Morris; and 

 a number of other relics of less importance. These have been pre- 

 sented to the Museum by Victor Morris, through the Wisconsin 

 Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Three silver camp cups, 

 owned during the Revolution by Brig. Gen. Anthony Wayne, have 

 been lent by Mrs. M. W. Stroud. A gold locket containing a lock of 

 the hair of Napoleon I has been presented by H. deB. Parsons, Miss 

 Katharine deB. Parsons, and Livingston Parsons, of New York City. 

 A very handsome gold snuffbox, the lid of wmich is set with dia- 

 monds, which was presented about 1836 to Col. Rene E. De Russy, 

 United States Arnry, by the Prince de Joinville, has been donated to 

 the Museum by Mrs. Laura R. De Russy, of New York City. A 

 silver tureen and platter presented March 3, 1919, to the Hon. 

 James R. Mann, Republican leader, by Members of the United 

 States House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, has been 

 donated by Mrs. Mann. 



The military collections have been increased by the addition of a 

 notably large and interesting collection of American and foreign 

 swords, which has been lent by Dr. Alfred F. Hopkins, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



An individual relic of unique interest received by the Museum dur- 

 ing the past year was one of the four rowboats used by the Geo- 

 logical Survey, Interior Department, Grand Canyon expedition, 

 August 1 to October 15, 1923. This boat was the first of this char- 

 acter to have survived the trip through the gorges of the canyon. 

 It was equipped with, a radio, and concerts were received from Los 

 Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and elsewhere at a depth 

 of from 1,000 to 5,000 feet below the rim of the canyon. This boat 

 was transferred from the United States Geological Survey. 



The numismatic collections have been increased by the gift of two 

 notable collections of European paper currency of the period of the 

 World War. The largest of these, consisting of German issues, was 

 presented by the American Numismatic Association through the 

 president of that association, Moritz Wormser, New York City, and 

 the smaller, consisting of Russian issues, was presented by Henry 

 Goldman, of New York City. The philatelic collections have been 

 increased by 3,782 specimens, of which 3,703 were transferred from 

 the Post Office Department. 



