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Accessions and Events OUR ASSOCIATION has been fortunate in the quality of recent accessions. It is with considerable pleasure that it may be re ported that we have acquired three logbooks for inclusion with our collection, now in the vault at the Peter Foulger Museum. First, by purchase, we have acquired the logbook of the ship Washington, of New Bedford, during a voyage from 1840 to 1844 under the command of Captain James G. Coffin, of Nan tucket. This log has some excellent colored drawings, including one of the ship. From Gerard J. Coleman, of the Dana Hall Schools, in Wellesley, Mass., we have been presented the logbook of the ship Pocahontas, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one of the few whaleships from that State, which sailed in 1832 for the Pacific under Captain Thomas Barnard of Nantucket, and with Nantucket officers and boatsteerers. From an anonymous donor we have received the logbook of the ship Constitution, of Nantucket, one of the Charles G. and Henry Coffin firm's ships, which sailed in 1835 for a three-year voyage to the Pacific Ocean, under Captain Edward Joy. This, also, has colored drawings, the most notable pages being of the ship flags from Nantucket, New Bedford and Fairhaven. Mrs. Lewis Greenleaf, a member of our Association for many years, has presented a handsome china punch bowl bearing the double "F" of the Folger Family of Nantucket on one side and a Folger crest on the other. David Austin has given the Commercial Insurance Company of Nantucket's document in which Captain Obed Swain has insured his "Catchings" to be brought home on the ship Levi StarbucJc, Captain Jernegan, if the ship returned before October 12, 1857. From Captain and Mrs. Reed Whitney, in Florida, we have received as a gift the original "Certificate of Purchase" handed Captain Irving Johnson when he acquired the brigantine Yankee at Southampton, England, in 1946. During her stay in Nantucket the Yankee was owned by Captain Whitney, and many appre ciated the fact she was berthed here and wish she could be once again at her anchorage in our harbor instead of going to pieces on a reef in the Pacific. An unusual engine has come to us through the interest of Mrs. John G. Taylor — a "hot air engine," which was used on Tuckernuck Island by Mr. Bigelow to pump water. Walter Bar rett, through whose efforts it was transported here, states the engine was once used at the Life Saving Station during the period the Station was on Tuckernuck. Kenneth Eldredge, of 'Sconset, has brought in a soapstone mold for casting lead bluefish drails. together with one of the drails used off the east end.
