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  2. Name, in the order of their importance, the accessions of the year which deserve special notice, and state in each case whether given, lent, received in exchange, or purchased.
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[[underlined]] Transportation Collection [[/underlined]].- The most important accession was the series of models illustrating the various methods of land conveyance and, incidentally, the development of the wheel. This series was prepared for the Atlanta Exposition and installed in the Museum after its return to Washington. It consists of thirty-nine models, together with a number of colored lithographs and photographs of foreign and American vehicles.
[[underlined]] Electrical Collection [[/underlined]].- This collection has been enriched by the construction of models illustrating two electrical wheels made by Benjamin Franklin in 1748, and described in his autobiography. The Western Union Telegraph Company deposited the original of the first instrument used to record a message transmitted to a distant point by means of electricity. The various decorations conferred by foreign sovereigns upon Professor Morse for his invention of the telegraph, together with an oil portrait painted by his son, Edward L. Morse, was deposited in the collection by the latter.
[[underlined]] Naval Architecture [[/underlined]].- A fine specimen of Balsa, used by the Seu Indians, was received from the Bureau of Ethnology through Mr. W J McGee, who collected it in Sororro, Mexico, during his exploration and examination into the habits of the Seu Indians in the early part of the calendar year 1896. Among the models of steamboats prepared for the Atlanta Exposition was a series illustrating the early experiments in steam navigation. This series contained models of steamboats built

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Name of Indian tribe uncertain. May be Seri?