MUSEUMS OF THE PACIFIC 

 COAST 



BY BARTON W. EVERMANN 



Director of the Museum, California 

 Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 



THE Pacific Coast has its fair share of museums. 

 There are general museums of history, science, 

 and art, and there are special museums, chiefly 

 in connection with the different departments of 

 the universities and colleges of the coast. There 

 are museums of natural history, of anthropology, 

 of history, and of geology, some of which rank 

 with similar institutions in the eastern states. A 

 brief statement giving the more important facts 

 regarding each of the museums of the Pacific Coast 

 for which data are available is here given. 



In San Francisco. — Museum of Anthropology, 

 Affiliated Colleges. An integral part of the Uni- 

 versity of California. Principal departments: An- 

 cient Egypt, Greece and Rome, Peru, California 

 Indians, Indians of Alaska and the Southwest. The 

 largest museum of its kind west of Chicago, and 

 one of the most complete collections of anthro- 

 pology in the world; contains 75,000 specimens 

 illustrating the history and development of civiliza- 

 tion from the earliest times. The Egyptian col- 

 lections go back to the dawn of civilization and 

 are extraordinarily varied. This museum possesses 

 also a remarkable collection from the site of the 

 oldest American civilizations, namely, Peru, the 

 country of the Incas. There are also very large 

 collections from the savage tribes in the South 

 Seas, the Philippines, Africa, and North and South 

 America. There is, among other exhibits, one of 

 the finest collections of Indian baskets in the world. 

 The collections of baskets, implements and speci- 

 mens of all kinds from every Indian tribe in Cali- 

 fornia is of special interest and value. And the 

 collection of actual Greek and Roman antiquities 

 is unusually complete and instructive. 



Reached by Market and Hayes street car (line 

 No. 6). 



A. L. Kroeber, curator. 



Memorial Museum. Contains large and valuable 

 collections of paintings (including the famous 

 Keith collection), tapestries, antique furniture, arms 

 and armor, art metals, the Bardwell collection of 

 700 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, and in 

 ethnology, mineralogy, forestry and produce, and 



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