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Willoughby, assistant curator; Alice C. Fletcher, assistant in 

 ethnology; Zelia Xuttall, honorary assistant in Mexican archeology; 

 George Bvron (lordon, assistant in Central American archeology; 

 Jane Smith, assistant librarian; Frances H. Mead, assistant a/nd 

 secretary; Frank Kussell, James H. Woods and Roland B. Dixon, 

 instrncfors in anthropology. 



The arrangement of the collections is intended to facilitate 

 research in general anthropology^, with special reference to 

 American and comparative archeology and ethnology. The 

 upper hall and one of the galleries are given to the Hemenway 

 collection of archeolo2:v and ethnoloo'v of the southwestern 

 tribes. The collections of American archeology are specially 

 important and extensive from Peru, Colombia, Central America 

 and Mexico, southwestern United States, the Ohio, St Johns 

 and Delaware valleys, New England and the Pacific coast. The 

 museum contains also archeologic collections from the French 

 gravels and caves, from Denmark, from the Swiss lakes, and 

 from many other regions; ethnologic collections from various 

 parts of the world; and an important collection of human 

 craniums and skeletons. These collections furnish the means 

 for making direct comparisons between the art and culture of 

 various peoples. 



The regular publications of the museum are annual reports, 

 special papers and memoirs. 



SEMITIC MUSEUM, Harvard university. David Gordon Lyon, 

 curator. 



The Assyrian room contains casts of large collections of 

 Assyrian, Babylonian and Hittite bas-reliefs; stone and clay 

 tablets written in cuneiform; cylinder seals and other objects 

 in bronze, clay and stone of Babylonian-Assyrian origin. The 

 Palestinian room contains collections of stone inscriptions, 

 manuscripts, coins, pottery, glass vases, bronzes, bas-reliefs, 

 sarcophagi, etc., and photographs and collections illustrating 

 the geology, botany and zoology of Palestine. The museum was 

 founded by Jacob H. Schiff and was designed as the home of 

 Semitic instruction. The library, lecture rooms, students and 

 curators are also in the building on Divinity avenue. 



