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provision made for a museum at the new University of Cliieago, but 

 the citizens, led by :\Ir. Field witli the munitieent «;ift of >=l!.(>0() 000, pro- 

 vided for a great museum iu Jackson Park. To this will be attached 

 a department of anthropology, including arts, physical anthropology, 

 etlinology, and arcliiii'ology. The material is greater than that upon 

 which any other institution of the kind was ever founded. Other 

 museums in the United States were greatly helped by the Exposition, 

 the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, the I^^atural History Museum in 

 Kew York, especially with the Emmons collection from southeast Alaska, 

 the National Museum in Washington, and the collections in Philadel- 

 phia. There were also many private cabinets formed and enriched from 

 the same source. It is fair to say that anthropology in America has 

 never before had its activities so stimulated and increased. 



The development of laboratories for anthropological study, research, 

 and instruction is slow. Physical anthropological apparatus will be 

 noted further on. But, there could scarcely be said to exist in the 

 world prior to 1893 a single building or institution where the material had 

 been set out to teach the whole history of mankind or the whole round 

 of anthropological science. Therefore the assemblage of objects to illus- 

 trate anthropology toward which the eyes of students turned in 1893, 

 was the World's Columbian Exposition. The material ot the science 

 manifested itself there in the following forms: 



(1) Representatives of living races in native garb and activities. 



(2) Things or objects connected with every phase of human life. 



(3) Pictorial representations of apparatus of life in action and repose. 



(4) Books and descriptive publications, throwing- light on man and 

 of his inventions. 



These exhibits were under the following auspices: 



(1) The exposition authorities, under the lead specially of Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam, aided by Prof. Sargent, Dr. Franz Boas, Dr. C. S. Wake, Miss 

 Alice Fletcher, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, Mr. Stuart Culiu, Mr. W. K. Moore- 

 head, Dr. West, Mr. G. A. Dorsey, and a large corps of army and navy 

 and civilian assistants who travelled especially over the countries 

 involved in the Columbian period. 



{'2) The (rovernment of the United States, iu the Government build- 

 ing especially installed by the Smithsonian Institution through the 

 National Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, and other Departments. 



(3) Foreign and home exhibitors, m. the foreign government build- 

 ings, in the exhibits from abroad and from home through all the great 

 public structures. 



(4) Concessionaires in the Midway Plaisance and also in the bazaars 

 everywhere throughout the grounds. Indeed, it would not be too 

 much to say that the World's Columbian Exposition was one vast 

 anthropological revelation. Not all mankind were there, but either in 

 persons or pictures their representatives were. 



