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in ethnology. The present curator, Dr. U. S. Grant, reports that 

 most of this material is in storage and that no details are at present 

 available. 



NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTI- 

 TUTE. Bennett Museum of Christian Archeology. 



STAFF. The museum is in charge of Alfred Emerson, acting direc- 

 tor, with the cooperation of the authorities of the institute. 



COLLECTIONS. The collections include the following original 

 antiquities of the early Christian period; 9 fragments of marble relief 

 sculptures; 19 inscriptions on marble, and fragments; 15 terra cotta 

 lamps; i lead sling shot of the ist century B. c. ; 80 intaglios and coins, 

 gold, silver, and bronze. There are 04 facsimile and other plaster 

 casts, partly pagan and partly Christian, including a large prototype 

 reproduction of the St. Hippolytus, and of 2 fine sculptured sarcophagi 

 at the Lateran Museum, Rome. There are 4 plastic models of Greek, 

 Roman, and Frankish soldiers; 4 colored plaster architectural models 

 and i of colored wood; 4 wooden and 19 terra cotta models of utensils; 

 8 models of military weapons and costumes, of metal, cloth, leather, 

 etc. ; 10 electrotype copies of antique jewels, altar plate, and a classical 

 frieze; -3 topographical models of Palestine, Acropolis, and Rome; 

 i triumphal quadriga of Emperor Constantine, one-quarter life, ori- 

 ginal composition; and 3oo mounted photographs. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The museum is the result of an anonymous 

 gift of $16,000 made in memory of the late Charles E. Bennett, a 

 former professor in the institute, and of his great interest in early 

 Christian antiquities and archeology. 



BUILDING. The museum occupies a well-lighted hall, affording 

 about 2000 square feet of floor space, and part of the second-story 

 stairway of the fireproof memorial building of the institute, on the 

 grounds of Northwestern University. The hall is elaborately decor- 

 ated, by graduates of the Art Institute of Chicago, working under Dr. 

 Emerson's direction, with a series of 44 mural and ceiling composi- 

 tions, re-enlarged and adapted from Monsignore Wilpert's colored 

 reproductions of the Roman catacomb frescos. The subjects selected 

 extend from the 2nd to the 4th century, A. D. 



SCOPE. The museum confines its work almost exclusively to 

 early Christian archeology. It desires to cooperate with other museums 

 in placing duplicate and multiple orders for difficult plastic reproduc- 

 tions abroad. 



LIBRARY. A beginning of an archeological library has been made. 



