HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE.

CLASS D.-CHARTS.

1. Portfolio No. 1.-Charts of the North Atlantic Ocean and islands, embracing east coast of Labrador to Cape Florida.

2. Portfolio No. 2.-Charts of the South coast of the United States; Florida Reefs; Bahama Banks and Channels; Windward Islands. 3. Portfolio No. 3.-Charts of Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean Sea and adjacent coast to the mouth of the Amazon. 4. Portfolio No. 4.-Charts of South Atlantic coast and islands from river Amazon to Cape Horn. From Equator on the coast of Africa to Cape of Good Hope.

5. Portfolio No. 5.-Charts of Southern Ocean and islands between their meridians; Great Britain, coasts, islands, &c.; English Channel, islands, and adjacent coasts; North Sea, and adjacent coasts.

6. Portfolio No. 6.-Charts of Skager Rack; Kattegat; Great and Little Belts; Baltic Sea; Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland, with adjacent coasts; west of France from Ouissant to Gibraltar; coast of Africa from Cape Spartel to the Equator; Mediterranean, Adriatic, Black, and Azof Seas, with adjacent coasts and islands.

1. Pine Tree flag (1775-1776).
2. Pine Tree flag (1775-1776).
3. Grand Union flag (1776).
4. Union national flag (1777).
5. Union national flag (1795).
6. Union national flag (1818).
7. Union jack (1876).

8. National flag (1876).

9. Commodore's blue broad pennant (1776-1860).

8. Portfolio No. 8.-Charts of west and northwest coast of the United States; west coast of America from Cape Lisburne to Cape Horn; Sea of Kantschatka to Cape Lopatka.

9. Portfolio No. 9.-Charts of Aleutian and other islands; Straits of Magellan; Okhotsk, Japan, and Yellow Seas, with adjacent coasts and islands; Cape Lopatka to Macao. 10. Portfolio No. 10.-Charts of China Seas; Indian Ocean; New Guinea,

and other islands.

1876).

11. Commodore's white broad pennant

(1776-1876).

12. Flag-officer's blue flag (1858-1866). 13. Flag-officer's red flag (1858–1866). 14. Flag-officer's white flag (1858–1866). 15. Union national flag (1815).

16. Flag of the Secretary of the Navy. 17. Admiral's flag (1866–1869). 18. Vice-admiral's flag (1866-1869). 19. Rear-admiral's blue flag (1866-1869). 20. Rear-admiral's red flag (1866–1869). 21. Rear-admiral's white flag (1866-1839) 22. Commodore's blue broad pennant (1866-1869).

Ocean, coasts, and islands; track

1869).

ral's at the mainmast head, ViceAdmiral's at the foremast head, Rear-Admiral's at the mizzenmast head).

26. Admiral's barge flag.

27. Vice-admiral's barge flag.

28. Rear-admiral's barge flag.

29. Commodore's flag (at the mainmast head).

30. Commodore's boat flag.

31. Signal numeral flag No. 1.

32. Signal numeral flag No. 2.

33. Signal numeral flag No. 3.

34. Signal numeral flag No. 4. 35. Signal numeral flag No. 5.

36. Sigral numeral flag No. 6.

37. Signal numeral flag No. 7. 38. Signal numeral flag No. 8. 39. Signal numeral flag No. 9. 40. Signal numeral flag No. 0. 41. Cornet.

42. First repeating flag. 43. Second repeating flag. 44. Third repeating flag.

45. Numeral flag.

46. Geographical flag.

47. Guard flag.

48. Church flag.

49. Answering pennant.

50. Preparatory pennant.

51. Interrogatory pennant.

52. Flag of the "Bonhomme Richard," under Captain John Paul Jones, Continental Navy.

53. Printed flag, made by the American Bunting Company.

54. Bunting testing apparatus. (Appendix No. 19.)

55. American manufactured

(Appendix No. 20.)

bunting.

56. Flag that inspired the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner." (Appendix No. 21.)

CLASS G.-OBSERVATORY PUBLICATIONS.

ETC.

1. Publications of the U. S. Naval Observatory:

2 vols. Astronomical, Magnetic, and Meteorological Observations, made by Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, U. S. Navy, 1838-1842.

tory--Continued.

20 vols. Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made from 1845 to 1873.

2 vols. Maury's Sailing Directions. 1 vol. Zones of Stars observed at the Washington Observatory, 1846 to 1849.

1 vol. Meteorological Observations, 1842 to 1867.

1 vol. Catalogue of Stars observed from 1845 to 1871.

1 vol. Catalogue of Stars observed in Præsepe; Solar Parallax from Observations of Mars; Orbit of Nemausa.

1 vol. Latitude and Longitude of U. S. Naval Observatory; Investigation of the Distance of the Sun; Description of the Transit Circle; Positions of Fundamental Stars; Right Ascensions of Equatorial Fundamental Stars; Uranian and Neptunian Systems.

1 vol. Report on Interoceanic Railroads and Canals.

1 vol. November Meteors, 1866, '67, '68.

1 vol. Report of Solar Eclipse of 1869.

1 vol. Report of Solar Eclipse of 1870. 1 vol. Differences of Longitude between Washington and Havana, and between Washington and Saint Louis.

1 vol. Founding and Progress of the U. S. Naval Observatory.

1 vol. Papers relating to the Transit of Venus of December 8-9, 1874.

1 vol. Instruments and Publications of the U. S. Naval Observatory.

1 vol. Awards to American Arctic Explorers Kane, Hayes, and Hall. 1 vol. Catalogue of 1,963 Stars observed in the Southern Hemisphere.

1 vol. Origin and Operations of the Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere.

4 vols. U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, by Lieut. James M. Gilliss, U. S. Navy.

1. Publications of the U. S. Naval Observatory-Continued.

2. Photograph of the 26-inch refractor.

3. Photograph of the 9.6-inch refractor.

4. Photograph of the transit circle. 5. Photograph of the transit instrument and mural circle.

6. Photograph of a drawing of the planet Saturn, made by Mr. Trouvelot with the 26-inch refractor.

7. Annular nebula, drawn by Prof. E. S. Holden, with the 26-inch refractor of the Naval Observatory, Washington.

8. Photograph of a drawing of the

nebula M. 17, made by Mr. Trouvelot with the 26-inch refractor. 9. Photograph of a drawing of the nebula of Orion, made by Mr. Trouvelot with the 26-inch reractor.

10. Apparatus for determining per-
sonal equation in astronomical
observations (Prof. J. R. East-
man). (Appendix No. 22.)
11. Heliotype of the 26-inch refractor.
12. Heliotype of the 9.6-inch refractor.
13. Heliotype of the transit circle.
14. Heliotype of the transit instru-
ment and mural circle.

CLASS H.-U. S. TRANSIT OF VENUS EX-
PEDITIONS.

1. Equatorial house.

2. Transit house.
3. Photographic house.

4. Equatorial telescope.
5. Transit instrument.
6. Striding level.

7. Hanging level.

8. Electric ohronograph.

9. Apparatus for determining difference of longitude by telegraph.

10. Heliostat and lens.

11. Plate-holder.

12. Chemicals and apparatus used in taking solar photographs.

13. Portable declinometer, with theodolite.

14. Dip circle.

15. Astronomical clock, mounted on field stand. (Appendix No. 23.)

CLASS J.-AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPLORA

TIONS.

1. Boat Faith of first and second Grinnell expeditions; one of the three which, in 1855, on abandoning the Advance, Kane pushed, with their stores, over the ice, 80 miles south to the open sea, and thence made 1,000 miles to Disco Brought home by Captain Hartstene, U. S. N.

2. Boat of the Polaris, in which the part of the crew which abandoned her June 3, 1873, were rescued off Cape York, in August, by the Ravens. craig.

3. Sledge like that on which Captain Hall made his last journey north from Thank God Harbor to latitude 820 3', October 10 to 24, 1871. (Made by the Esquimaux Joe Ebierbing) 4. Bust of Elisha K. Kane, assistant surgeon U. S. Navy.

(Born at Philadelphia, Feb. 3, 1820. May, 1843, naval surgeon to U. S. Chinese embassy.

May, 1850, surgeon and naturalist of Lieutenant De Haven's first Grinnell Arctic expedition.

1853 to 1855, conducted the second Grinnell expedition.

Died in Havana February 16, 1857.) 5. Furs worn by Dr. Kane in his Arctic expedition, 1853–55.

6. Dr. Kane's rifle.

7. Dr. Kane's kayak.

8. Walrus head.

25. Upernavik, Greenland. ("Narrative of the Polaris.")

26. Cape Lupton. ("Narrative of the Polaris.")

27. Ravine near Thank God Harbor. ("Narrative of the Polaris.")

25. Boat camp, Newman's Bay, July, 1872. ("Narrative of the Polaris.") 29. Leaving Thank God Harbor, August 12, 1872. ("Narrative of the Polaris.") 30. The boats at Hakluyt Island, June 4, 1873. ("Narrative of the Polaris.") (Kane and Hamilton.) (Kane and Hamilton.) (Kane and Hamilton.) (Kane and Hamilton.) (Kane and Hamilton.) 33. Arctic scene. (Kane and Hamilton.) 37. Captain Tyson's boat, prepared for its northern journey.

31. Arctic scene. 32. Arctic scene. 33. Arctic scene. 34. Arctic scene. 35. Arctic scene.

38. The house on the ice-floe, October, 1872. 39. Thank God Harbor.

II.-Expedition of Dr. Kane, 1853-'55.

1. Flag of the Advance.
2. Journals of Kane. 2 vols.
3. Transit instrument of Kaue.
4. Sextant of Kane.

5. Prismatic compass of Kane.
6. Spyglass of Kane.

7. Portfolio of Arctic sketches.

8. Twelve Arctic scenes in oil colors. 9. Forty-eight Arctic scenes in water colors.

10. Ten daguerreotypes.

11. Copy of Tennyson (read to his men). 12. "Arctic Explorations," 1853–55. 13. "Arctic Boat Journey." Dr. I. I. Hayes.

14. Photographs of medals awarded to Kane, viz, from the Royal Geographical Society, London; from the Geographical Society of Paris; from British residents in New York City; from the State of New York, and "The Queen's medal."

the British Government, 66 as a token of their sincere gratitude and esteem, to Henry Grinnell, of New York, through whose exertions and munificence the American Arctic expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and the officers and crews of Her Britannic Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror were undertaken and carried into execution, between the years 1850-'53,"

26. Photograph of William Morton. 27 and 28. Medals awarded to Mr. Amos Bonsall, viz:

28. Medal from the British Government to the officers and men engaged in the American Arctic expeditions. 29. The American Geographical Society

33

1856.

Captain Wilkes to the South Seas, and by De Haven, Kane, Hayes, and Hall to the Arctic Seas. 30. Whale chart prepared by Lieut. M. F. Maury at the Naval Observatory, 1851; used by Hall.

31. Addresses of Hall and Henry Grinnell before the American Geographical Society of New York. the Society.)

(Journal of

6. Brass writing plates, heated to prevent ink from freezing.

7. Shot used by Hall.

8. Rib of spotted seal.

9. Musk-bull tooth.

10. Seal tooth and walrus tooth.

11. Reindeer horns.

12. Esquimaux kayak.

13. Cord from the British ship Resolute. 14. Quartz from Marble Island.

15. Minerals from Repulse Bay.

16. Minerals from Amherst Island. 17. Journal of second expedition. 18. Minerals from Gifford River and from Fury and Hecla Strait.

Relics of Parry's Expedition. back by Hall.)

(Brought

19. Wood and oakum; wood of Parry's flagstaff. (Igloolik.)

20. Pieces of tent; rope yarn; oilcloth; canvas; shot; beads; iron. (Igloolik).

Relics of Capt. James Ross's Expedition, 1829-33. (Brought back by Hall.)

21. Pieces of riveted and hoop iron; shot.