164 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



The Museum. The donjitioiib to the Museum during tlie 

 year numher 3t)9 (Vom 102 conlrihutors. The specimcns in 

 iititund histoiy, including those in archseology, which hiive 

 been received during the year, have been placed on deposit 

 with the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science, in 

 accordance withprevious arrangements ; those ot'an histor- 

 ical character, or which possess an artistic interest, have 

 been phiced in the rooms of the Institute. They have been 

 received trom the following donors : 



James A. Chamberlain ; Andrews, Monlton & Jolmson ; Edw. A. 

 Smith ; H. M. Brooks, mourningrings, etc. ;Weiruijj;ton Poolof Wenhain ; 

 Prescott Whipple; Mrs. R. S. Andrews, a miiiiature of Kev. S. P. Hill; 

 A. Averill; John P. Andrews, picture of Barl< Patriot of Salem 1817; 

 Geor«ie R. Curwen, miniature, Para rubber shoes; Francis H. Wade, 

 collection of log books ; Edward S. Morse ; Chas. H. Andrews ; Wm. M. 

 Hill; Mrs. Chas. Osgood; Mrs. H. M. Brooks, scrap-box made by tlie 

 Misses Derby of South Salem with coUectioji of plaster casts ; Mrs. 

 Maria H.BrayofEastGloiicester; J. Archer Hill; Miss Sarah E. Smith, 

 fan made in Paris, 1796, with American and Freiich emblems; Arthur 

 H. Tibbets, oil painting by B. F. West of Salem, whaliiig scene about 

 1837;Perry Collier; Dan'l ITenderson ; Thomas H. Johnson; Edwin 

 O. Foster; C. \V. Browne; Edw. B.Lane; E. H. Payson, steelyards 150 

 years old and pocket-book of Col. Abner Cheever of the Boston Tea 

 Party; John P. Tilton; Francis H Lee; John Robinson, lith. death bed 

 of Harrison 1841, Franklin stove, mourning ring 1740, autograph letter 

 of W. E. Gladstone ; Geo. H. Allen, photograph of ship Panay, framed ; 

 W. L. Welch; Henry M. Batchelder; Chas. B. Lii^comb of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. ; Samuel Thorner; Geo. L. Ames, Washington plate; Mrs. D. A. 

 Russell of Waverly ; Mrs. Eliza G. Waters : John B. Skinner; Josiah M. 

 Crocker; James Chaml)erlain ; Misses M. E. and H O. Williams; Mrs. 

 Anna J. Haskeil of W. Roxbury, wax dolls from Paris in 1838; Samuel 

 P. Andrews; Merchants National Bank; Geo. M. White; Margaret M. 

 Haskeil; E. M. R. Brooks; Mary S. Cleveland; Mary Otis Bailey of 

 Dorcliester, old papers, deeds, etc. ; Lucy H. Cleveland ; Annie E. Snell ; 

 Fielder Israel; M. H. Flynn; Charlotte Crowninshield ; Ross Turner; 

 Thos. F. Hunt; Frank V. Wright; Mrs. Jos. Winn of Newton; Capt. 

 Wm. H. Nelson, painling of the destruction of the ship Harvey Birch 

 by Confederate cruiser Nashville, Nov. 19, 1861 ; Miss Susan V. Hotch- 

 kiss of New Ilaven; the Misses King of Beverly, framed portrait of 

 Hon. John G. King, 1825; Caleb BufTum ; Rev. Chas. Noyes of North 

 Andover; John Gross of Liverpool, Florida; Misses Chadwick, loom 



