Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-05
COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Addition to the Collection of ExhIbita
 Lately Received.

Recent objects received at the rooms of
 the New Haven Colony Historical society: February 3.-From Alphonso Thill, Esq, a large high glass showcase conveniently | mounted. From same, four lignum vite
 and ebony wood squaring rules, two to three ! feet long, used by Hon. Ithiel Town in draw | ing plans for the State House building, 1928 | 1S30
 February 5.-Circular of information mum
 Der three, 1885, from Smithsonian institu- | tion, Washington, D. c. From United States | Department of Interior, United States geo. | graphical survey, large actavo bound vol | tune of the mineral resources of the United
 States, by A. Williams, jr., 1,O16 pages, l 1SS3-4.
 l February 10.-Report of eighth annual l meeting of the American Bar association
 held at Saratoga, N. Y., August 19 to 21, 1885, from the secretary.
 l February 10.-A Boston lecture sermon,
 preached September 16, 1772, by Jonathan
 Parsons, A. M. of Lyme, Ct., printed in Bos- I ton, Mass: ffty-four pages. From Prof l Salisbury.
 February 15.-From Mrs. George F. New
 comb, long Fiji Island Indian spear; also from same, a handsomely framed collection picked by her at the Thimble Islands, Bran
 ford, Ct.; living specimens beautifully trans ferred on to white paper.
 February 16.-A pamphlet of 240 pages,
 being the biographical record of the class of
 Yale 1S42, with three pamphlet class letters,
 10S34-5 from the class secretary, Provi
 dence, R. I. From MT. John Trowbridge a
 flint lock musket in good condition, carried by Caleb Trowbridge in the war of the Rev. | olution. long elm tree splinter from the Wallingford tornado, August 9, 1878, re- ceived from E. Caldwell, IT Lafayette street. Two pamphlets from the Long Island His | torical society, one giving full account of constitution and object of the society and l list of it's 1,214 members, annual member | ship fee $10, life do. $100; the other en- l titled ''The Dutch and the Iroquois," most | valuable historic contribution by Rev G. H. Hall, D. D. Also from the same, the third l volume of the society's memoirs" hand
 somely bound, 400 pages.
 | February 2O.-From the Chicago Histori- l cal society, copy of their constitution and 1 by laws; also pamphlet sketch of the emil | nent navigator and discoverer, Samuel de | Champlain, from whom the lake in New ! York is named.
 February 26.-From Samuel O. Plant, an old resident of Branford, red cedar goblet | handsomely turned from palisade forming part of the old stockade surrounding the First church in Branford in 1644, when the | people assembled each armed for defense l against the Indians of that period He says two families were settled in Branford and l Guilford before the settlement here in New | Haven.
 February 26.-From Hon. James Reynolds, 1 town agent, a printed passport in the Danish language, signed by Peter Carll Fred von Scholten, major general commandant of the Danish West Indies, given to Mir. Thomas Atwater of New Haven, Conn.,, 21st of May, 1883, at the island of St. Croix, W. l. February 27.-From Captain Charles H. Townshend, loan of oil painting, likeness of Charles Goodyear, discoverer and patentee of method of manufacture of India rubber into l waterproof plastic forms, such as shoes and clothing. His name and success for this im- portant industry confers lasting honor on this his native city.
 March From the U. s. Department of l the Interior, nine pamphlets, numbers 15 to | 23 of bulletin of the United States geolog- 1 ical survey.
 March 2.-From Professor John F. Weir, of Yale School of Fine Arts, the haversack of Charles XII of Sweden, stamped with the coat of arms of that nation and the kings in . itials, the great conqueror of Denm ark, Ger many, Austria, Poland, and part of Russia It was brought from Europe by Colonel B. R. Alden of the Uniled States army and giv en to Professor Weir's father, from whom Professor Weir received it.
 March 3.-A printed copy of the first ser mon preached by Robert Cushman in New
 England in Plymouth December 21, 1891. It has fac-simile autographs of twelve of the
 ''Mayaower pilgrims" who heard it-Gover-
 nor William Bradford, Governor Edward Winslow, Governor Thomas Prince, Captain Miles Standish, William Brewster, Isaac AL
 lerton, Nathaniel Moulton, John Bradford,
 John Winslow, Thomas Cushman, Constant
 and Thomas Southworth. Presented by Mrs. Horace s. Bascome, 20 College street.