This room contains the fruits of the inventive genius of the whole nation. More than 160,000 models are here deposited. 27. BLOOD-STAINED CONFEDERATE BATTLE-FLAGS, CAPTURED DURING THE 462 WAR, Sketched by permission of the Government from the large collection in possession of the War Department, at Washington. 1. Black Flag. 4. State and Regiment unknown. [Captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, by the 60th Regiment of New York Volunteers.] 2. Alabama Flag. 3. Palmetto Flag. 5. State Colors of North Carolina. 28. THE NEW BUILDING NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED FOR DEPARTMENTS OF 466 STATE, ARMY, AND NAVY—WASHINGTON, 29. THE MAIN HALL OF THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM—WASHINGTON, 476 This Museum occupies the scene of the assassination of President Lincoln, in Ford’s Theatre, which after that date became the property of the Government. It contains a collection of upwards of twenty thousand rare, curious and interesting objects, surpassing any similar collection in the world. It is visited annually by upwards of twenty-five thousand persons. 30. CURIOSITIES FROM THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM, 482 31. A WITHERED ARM, 482 Skin, flesh, and bones complete. Amputated by a cannon-shot on the battle-field of Gettysburg. The shot carried the severed limb up into the high branches of a tree, where it was subsequently found, completely air and sun-dried. 32. SKULL OF A MAN, 482 Who received an arrow-wound in the head, three gun-shot flesh-wounds, one in the arm, another in the breast, and a third in the leg. Seven days afterwards he was admitted to the hospital at Fort Concha, Texas, (where he subsequently died,) after having travelled above 160 miles on the barren plains, mostly on foot. 33. APACHE INDIAN ARROW-HEAD, 482 Of soft hoop-iron. These arrows will perforate a bone without causing the slightest fracture, where a rifle or musket-ball will flatten; and will make a cut as clean as the finest surgical instrument. 34. SKULL OF LITTLE BEAR’S SQUAW, 482 Perforated by seven bullet-holes. Killed in Wyoming Territory. 35. ALL THAT REMAINS ABOVE GROUND OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH, 482 Being part of the Vertebræ penetrated [A] by the bullet of Boston Corbett. Strange freak of fate that the remains of Booth should find a resting-place under the same roof, and but a few feet from the spot where the fatal shot was fired. 36. SKULL OF A SOLDIER, 482 Wounded at Spottsylvania; showing the splitting of a