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tension of its work, it was constituted a department of the uni- 

 versity. Its collections are now contained in halls devoted to 

 them in the library. They comprise eight sections, each in charge 

 of a curator, as follows : American and Prehistoric Archaeology, 

 Asian and General Ethnology, Babylonian Casts, Egyptian and 

 Mediterranean Glyptics, Musical Instruments, and Paleontology. 

 The American Museum occupies a spacious hall. Long rows 

 of flat cases fill the center of the room. In these are contained a 

 carefully arranged collection of the objects of stone, bronze, bone, 

 and pottery which comprise the few material evidences of the 

 presence of man on the eastern part of this continent before the 

 arrival of European settlers. There are displayed the rude stone 

 implements from the Trenton gravels, the discovery of which 

 carried back the antiquities of man in America to a period hith- 

 erto undreamed of, constituting an era in the science of American 

 archaeology. There are also finished stone implements of the 

 recent Indians, and the fragments which alone remain of the rude 

 Indian pottery. These specimens are arranged State by State 

 through almost the entire Union. The exhibition space is at pres- 

 ent chiefly occupied with the Hazzard collection from the cliff 

 dwellings of Mancos Canon in southwestern Colorado. Here, un- 

 der the wide dome of the Library building at the university, is a 

 little colony of people and things estimated to be two thousand 

 years old. The village was discovered by two brothers named 

 Wetherile, in 1888, in the heart of the canon of the Mancos River 

 in Colorado. They bought up the village at a very low figure, 

 and sold it to Mr. C. D. Hazzard, of Minneapolis. Mr. Hazzard 

 showed a part of his wonderful collection at the World's Fair, 

 and Mr. Stewart Culin, of the university, secured it for exhibition 

 in the museum. The collection represents in an almost un- 

 broken series the entire life of these strange people, telling in 

 plain words more about them than we know now about the war- 

 ring Indian tribes which inhabited the eastern coast of North 

 America. This exhibition shows that in the wilds of the Rocky 

 Mountains, where this curious colony of people were driven for 

 refuge by the wilder tribes inhabiting the plains, there existed 

 two thousand years ago a civilization and a culture that will 

 bear comparison with its contemporary countries throughout the 

 world. The Mexican antiquities consist chiefly of objects from 

 graves, among which are a number of cinerary urns, with their 

 original contents of calcined human bones. From Peru there is 

 a highly important collection of pottery from the ancient sepul- 

 chres, with mummies and a number of the simple objects, such as 

 food, weapons, and household implements, which the Peruvians 

 were accustomed to bury with their dead. From the islands of 

 the Pacific may be seen the weapons and pottery, the carvings of 



