STUDIHS OF THE MUSFUMS AM) KIXDKI'D INSTITUTIONS OF 

 NEW YORK CITY, ALBANY, BUFFALO, AND CHICAGO-, NOTES 

 ON SOME EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS. 



By A. B. Meyek, 



Director of lite Roi/al /oo/of/icul, Aiilliroi)olo(jirnl,aiid Etlnioi/rapliirdl Mnsnnn of Drrxdfi). 



A. — Museums and Kindked Institutions of New York City, 

 Albany, Buffalo, and CHicACio." 



INTRODUCTION. 



The authorities of the Roj^al Collections of Art and vScience in 

 Dresden coninii.ssionod me in 1899 to visit the niuseiinis and kindred 

 institutions of the United States so far as they relate to inuseuni affairs, 

 and to pay special attention to the preservation of the collections from 

 fire. In the time at my disposal 1 could master only a portion of 

 what might properly have been studied. I was moreover obliged to 

 confine myself to the eastern part of that great countiy; even then 

 I had to turn aside from a miml)er of cities and scientific centers well 

 worthy of study, and I was far from able to exhaust the subject ev^en 

 in those places that I visited. This will explain many omissions in 

 my report. I was in New York from the Sth to the 26th of August 

 and from the 19th to the 31st of October, in Albany from the ^Oth to 

 the 29th of August, in Buttalo on the 29th and 30th of August, in 

 Chicago from the 5th to the 13th of Septem}>er, in Washington from 

 the llth to the 27th of September, in Philad(>li)hia from the 27th of 

 September to the Sth of October, and in Boston and Cambridge from 

 the 5th to the 19th of October. 



The parts of my report here presented include studies in New York 

 ('ity, Albany, Bulialo, and Chicago, and it is intended that other parts 

 shall l)e printed as soon as possible, giving results of my studies in 

 Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and Cambridge. 



In the United States a sharp distinction can not always be made 

 between museums and libraries, since many of the latter also include 



« Translation of Uber Museen des Ostens der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 

 Ri'isfstudii'n von Dr. A. B. Meyer. Verlag von R. Friedliinder it Sohn in T'lMlin, 

 1!)00 and 1901. Part I, New York State; Part 11, Chicago. 



N.\T Jtrs 1903 21 :;-'l 



