THE MUSEUM. 
The numismatic collection of the National Library 
of Paris contains some 250,000 coins and medals. 
This is one of the largest public collections in ex¬ 
istence. 
The Public Museum of the city of Milwaukee, 
Wis., contains 11,198 zoological specimens, 5000 
botanical specimens, 2921 ethnological objects, 2439 
fossils, and 4532 minerals, 1630 coins and medals 
and 100 pieces of Confederate and other paper 
money. Amongst the ethnological collection are 
valuable series of Swiss lacustrine and Esquimaux 
relics, and a number of valuable copper implements, 
some of which are figured in Foster’s Prehistoric 
Races. The custodian is Mr. Carl Doerflinger. 
The Museum of the city of Winterthur, Switzer¬ 
land, contains 20,000 Swiss coins and medals, a gift 
from Dr. F. Imhoof-Blumer, the director, to his 
native city, in 1871. 
RARITIES IN VARIOUS COLLECTIONS. 
Mr. Wm, W. Jefferis, of Philadelphia, possesses 
the original crystals of clinochlore and phlogopite 
figured in Dana’s Mineralogy. He also has a large 
crystal of calcite, from Rossie, N. Y., which con¬ 
tains, in one of its cavities, nearly half a pint of 
water; also the finest crystallized specimen of dias- 
pore ever found, from Chester Co., Pa. 
A unique chimney-piece and fire place, consisting 
of 108 curious old Dutch tiles, is owned by Mr. S. 
L. Frey, of Palatine Bridge, N. Y. 
Mr. Robert Coulton Davis, of Philadelphia, pos¬ 
sesses an uncirculated silver dollar of 1804; also a 
restrike of the same. 
Four volumes of Blackstone’s Commentaries, 
printed by Robert Bell, Philadelphia, 1771, for¬ 
merly owned by Major-Gen. Anthony Wayne, and 
containing his autograph, are now in the library of 
Mr. E. A. Barber, of Philadelphia. 
The Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of 
Philadelphia recently procured a series of about 30 
large amber beads from prehistoric graves in North¬ 
ern Prussia. Only 14 other specimens (9 in the 
Smithsonian and 5 in a private collection) are 
known in the United States. 
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A lady in West Chester, Pa., possesses some fine 
old pieces of Delft pottery, amongst which is a large 
plaque, with polychrome decoration, in a state of 
perfect preservation. 
In the Bloomfield Moore collection, Memorial 
Hall, Philadelphia, is an unusually fine Lowestoft 
punch-bowl. It measures over 20 inches in diam¬ 
eter, and is decorated with a gold band, one and one- 
half inches wide, on the outer rim, with wreath of 
variously colored flowers. Clusters of flowers appear 
at intervals around the sides. In the plain white 
interior are represented six documents with seals, 
printed in black, in old German text. 
RECENT SALES. 
A large collection of Confederate Treasury notes, 
etc., catalogued by Mr. Lyman H. Low, was sold 
by auction on March 26th last, by Messrs. Bangs & 
Co., New York. A $500 issue of 1861 (written 
date), Montgomery, with drove of cattle crossing 
brook, uncirculated, the rarest of the series, brought 
$11.00; one of $1000, with busts of Calhoun and 
Andrew Jackson, canceled, $10.25 ; other examples 
brought $4.05, $3.50, $3.20 and $2.00, respectively. 
A$ioo issue of 1862 (writtendate), J. T. Paterson, Co¬ 
lumbia, S. C., with green back , very rare, sold for $21. 
Three Confederate bonds of 1861 ($100, $500 and 
$1000), registered, with busts of Jackson, Calhoun 
and Davis, printed by Am. Bank Note Co , New 
Orleans, sold for $2.25 ; a 50c. U. S. fractional note, 
with bust of Gen. Spinner (carmine back), without 
signatures , issued by mistake, $9.25; a set of four 
pieces (5, 10, 25 and 50 cts.), “postage currency,” 
perforated edges, “ABCo” on reverse, $1.60; the 25 
and 50c. bust of Fessenden, Justice seated, values . 
on solid bronze ground, $2.50; an essay, design for 
“postage currency,” picture of 1863 half dol., 
black, obv. and rev., broadside, $4.00. 
At J. W. Haseltine’s sale of bric-a-brac, which 
took place in Philadelphia, on March 30th last, 
postage stamps brought the best prices. One lot of 
21 boxes, of common varieties, sold at $115.00. An¬ 
other lot, of the rarer varieties, brought $125.00. A 
collection of about 20,000 war envelopes went for 
$26.00. A large series of autograph letters and 
