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The [[strikethrough]] original [[/strikethrough]] application of Jesse Ramsden for a patent for an equatorial instrument, written and signed by himself, has been [[strikethrough]] deposited in [[/strikethrough]] ^[[presented to]] the [[strikethrough]] collection [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Museum]] by Mr. Park Benjamin, and placed in the case with the original dividing engine, deposited a few years since by [[strikethrough]] M [[/strikethrough]] ^[[D]]r. Morton, President of Stevens Institute.

Among the relics attention [[strikethrough]] should [[/strikethrough]] ^[[may]] be called to the model of the railroad monument erected at Bordentown by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and the plaster model from which the bronze tablet for it was [[strikethrough]] made [[/strikethrough]] ^[[cast]], ^[[which were]] received through Mr. J. T. Richards.

A sedan chair decorated with gold and handsomely upholstered, which was owned and used by the royal family of France during the reign of Louis XIV, has been deposited in the collection by Miss [[strikethrough]] C [[/strikethrough]] ^[[K]]atherine Parsons of Washington