THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



large and varied collection, which covers almost the whole of the 

 North American continent, and which is particularly rich in 

 objects from California and Oregon. In 1891 this collection was 

 purchased by the Trustees. Another valuable archaeological col- 

 lection which was brought to the Museum about this time was 

 that of Mr. Andrew E. Douglass. It contains a great number 

 of exquisite specimens, and is arranged so as to show synoptically 

 the various types occurring in North America. Shortly before 

 his death in 1901, Mr. Douglass donated his entire collection to 

 the Museum. 



The growth of the Department made it necessary to place it 

 under the charge of a special curator. For a number of years 

 Professor Bickmore had combined the direction of the Depart- 

 ment with numerous other duties connected with the Museum. 

 After a few years of experiments the Department of Archaeology 

 and Ethnology was established under the curatorship of Mr. 

 James Terry, who retained this position until 1894. In Janu- 

 ary, 1894, Mr. Marshall H. Saville entered on the duties of 

 AsvSistant Curator, and later in the same year Professor F. W. 

 Putnam was appointed to the curatorship. With this time com- 

 menced the systematic development of the Department by means 

 of expeditions organized for the purposes of collecting and re- 

 search. The two expeditions which had been entered upon 

 under the curatorship of Mr. Terry were continued, but numer- 

 ous other enterprises, which were decided upon according to the 

 needs of the Department, were organized. 



Owing to the peculiar manner in which the Department had 

 grown, the collections were very unsystematic. From some 

 regions excellent and exhaustive material had been received, 

 while other districts were not represented at all. Since the 

 Museum had never undertaken any archseological research, 

 there was not a collection that represented the archaeology of 

 any definite area fully. For this reason it was one of the first 

 undertakings of Professor Putnam to send collectors to cany- 

 on researches in a few typical fields. Mr. Harlan I. Smith ex- 

 plored some of the stone graves of Kentucky, while Dr. George 

 A. Dorsey and Mr. C. L. Metz carried on similar work in Ohio. 



49 



