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There [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] have been seventy accessions to the Collections during the year aggregating nearly one thousand specimens. The principal objects were a folio Bible belonging to General Washington with his autograph on the title page; Collection of [[strikethrough]] military and [[/strikethrough]] decorations of ^[[some of the]] military and civic orders of Europe and America; a large number of memorials and personal relics of ^[[President]] Andrew Jackson; some of the earliest copper money coined in America dating about 1525; medals [[strikethrough]] from London [[/strikethrough]] presented by the Corporation of the City of London, commemorative of events in the history of that city; autograph letters of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart of the Confederate Army and of Hon. G. W. Randolph, Secretary of War of