in this gallery is ornamental or table ware, and shows the various styles of shape and decoration popular until the Empire. THE COLLECTION OF WATCHES THE COLLECTION OF WATCHES,' both in quality and quantity, is the greatest collection of such material ever gathered together. It is composed for the most part of specimens from two large private collections, that of Carl Marfels, one of the most expert students of horology in Europe, and that of the late F. G. Hilton Price, a most enthusiastic collector. This collection gives the student a complete illustration not only of the gradual and steady progress of horological art, but also of the beauty of some of the finest examples of it in existence. The industry of watchmaking was begun shortly after the dawn of the sixteenth century. Peter Henlein (Hele), a locksmith of Nuremburg, invented a clock with a MAINSPRING, which permitted its use in traveling, and the demand for smaller portable timepieces was soon created. These timepieces were made of iron and steel, 'The Numbers on the individual labels refer to the J. Pierpont Morgan Catalogue of Watches. due, no doubt, to the fact that they were the works of locksmiths. The watches were inaccurate, owing to the variation of the motive power of the mainspring. This defect was gradually overcome through the invention by Jacob Zech, in 1525, of the FUSEE. This equalizing device is in use to the present day and most watches after 15251550 are so made. No. 103 belongs to the first period, having been made about 1550 in Nuremburg, and is consequently one of the earliest watches in existence. Brass was next substituted for iron and steel, the dials being made of different metals, elaborately decorated by chasing or engraving. In the year 1585 watchmaking was introduced into GENEVA by one Charles Cusin (No. 3) who, though he cannot be asserted to have been actually the first person who made watches in that city, nevertheless was responsible for the establishment of the industry which now gives employment to so many people and world-wide fame to the city. About 1600 occurs the earliest mention of the oval Nuremburg watch known as the NUREMBURG EGG, represented by Nos. 5, 102 and others. The WATCH- AND CLOCKMAKERS OF PARIS were granted a charter by King Francis I in the year 1544, and from that time formed a Guild with close and rigid restrictions. The collection, unhappily, does not contain any of the works of the |