The American Museum Journal 



Vol. II. 



APRIL, 1902 



No. 4. 



j]HE "Guide Leaflet " presented with this number of 

 the Journal is descriptive of a remarkable as- 

 semblage of baskets, sandals, pottery, clothing and 

 articles of food, and the desiccated bodies of the 

 people who made use of them, which has been 

 installed in the southwest corner of the West hall, second floor. 

 The people are known as the "Basket Makers" and they lived 

 and died in the canons of the southeastern part of Utah, probably 

 before the prehistoric ClifT Dwellers inhabited that region. This 

 collection comprises the oldest baskets known from this con- 

 tinent. Even as late as ten years ago it was not generally sup- 

 posed that basket-making had been carried to such a high degree 

 of perfection so early in the history of the American races. 



DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 



John C. Medd, Esq., Hon. Secretary of the committee hav- 

 ing in charge the Nature Study exhibition which is to be held in 

 London next July, under the patronage of many well-known 

 personages, among whom is Lord Strathcona, High Commis- 

 sioner for Canada, has written to Prof. A. S. Bickmore, asking 

 him to make an exhibit of the slides, photographs and methods 

 used for "visual instruction" by the Department of Public 

 Instruction of the American Museum. Mr. Medd, furthermore, 

 has invited Prof. Bickmore to take part in the important series 

 of conferences on Nature Study which are to be held in con- 

 nection with the exhibition. Prof. Bickmore intends to accept 

 this invitation and is making ready a series of photographic 

 prints and slides illustrating the forestry of North America, 

 as prepared for his lectures in the Museum and throughout the 



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