THE MUSEUM An 1973 additions to the museum collections enriched the historic heritage preserved by the Society. Most notable was the acquisition through the Waldron Phoenix Belknap Fund of several choice post- Revolutionary War pieces of New York silver made by John Vernon (active 1787-1816): a beaker of ca. 1790, and a mug and eight spoons with the original bill of sale dated 1794. Other silver pieces included a stock buckle worn during the American Revolution by Captain William Parker, the gift of Edward H. Mabley, and a trophy bowl made by Tiffany and Company, which was awarded to the South Side Sportsmen's Club of Long Island in 1884. We have also received additions to the collections of glassware, dolls, and textiles. A gift from C. Otto v. Kienbusch is a very large nineteertth-century cast-iron Franklin stove. The stove was originally in the Astor House on Broadway and Vesey Street. The Astor, built in 1834-36, was long one of New York's most famous hotels. For half a century the stove has been in the South Side Sportsmen's Club. Painting Accessions The Society's comprehensive collection of American portraits was enlarged with likenesses of well-known public figures and family portraits. The earliest study received in 1973 is an early nineteenth-century pastel by an unidentified artist of Benjamin Moore (1747-1816), who was born in the old village of Newtown (now Elmhurst) on Long Island. Moore served simultaneously from 1801 to 1811 as the second Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York and as president of Columbia College. The portrait is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. Perry. As a bequest from the estate of Philip W. Tompkins, we received a portrait of Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825), attributed to Thomas Sully, which is a copy of Sully's portrait of 1817, depicting Tompkins the year he left the governorship of New York to assume the vice- presidency of the United States. Of similar interest is the gift of Mrs. Frederick S. Danziger of a fine charcoal portrait of Theodore Roose- [23!