31, 1886, and the Minutes of the Meetings of the Trustees 

 bear ample evidence of his constant watchfulness of the in- 

 terests, not only of the Museum, but of the whole institution 

 during the several years through which, for lack of funds, 

 the work of rebuilding was prolonged, for not until 1895 was 

 he able to report its completion under his very competent 

 supervision. In token of its appreciation of his invaluable 

 services in this direction, ' 'the condition of our finances for- 

 bidding us to indulge the natural desire to meet his de- 

 serts'' otherwise, he was elected by the Trustees on June 28, 

 1889, Professor of Natural History and Geology, which chair 

 he continued to fill, in conjunction with his duties as Curator 

 of the Museum, until his death in 1889. During the latter 

 part of his administration Dr. Manigault established a De- 

 partment of Archaeology in the Museum, for which he pur- 

 chased a number of interesting plaster copies of notable ex- 

 amples illustrative of ancient Assyrian and Egyptian art and 

 history, and a very beautiful series of reproductions of an- 

 cient Greek vases from the celebrated terra cotta works at 

 Copenhagen. Most unfortunately, however, owing possibly 

 to a lack of room for their accommodation, and probably also 

 to a failure to adequately appreciate their scientific value, 

 the smaller, and, from the "popular" viewpoint, less attrac- 

 tive specimens, especially in the Department of the Inverte- 

 brata and of Mineralogy, were suffered to fall into a state of 

 great neglect and consequent confusion. "It would appear 

 from the labels that much valuable material, especially in 

 the line of insects, had been lost through the ravages of 

 Museum pests." (Prof. Ashley's Guide, p. 40.) A volume 

 of the priceless Elliott Herbarium was discovered only a few 

 months ago in a lot of rubbish in the cellar of the Library 

 building. The greater portion of the magnificent conchologi- 

 cal collection, which, as quoted above, the Trustees forty 

 years ago felt justified in declaring was the "amplest and 

 richest in the Western World," was thrown aside in the ut- 



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