9 6 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



The museum receives a small yearly appropriation from the Tulane 

 Academy fund and a yearly donation from an interested friend. It is 

 in charge of George E. Beyer, curator, and will soon be open free to the 



public. 



MAINE 



AUGUSTA: 



KENNEBEC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



No reply has been received to repeated requests for information 

 regarding the collections of this society, which are said by Merrill to 

 include a general collection of minerals, and other natural history 

 specimens. 



BRUNSWICK: 



BOWDOIN COLLEGE. Art Collections. (Walker Art Building.) 



STAFF. Curator, Henry Johnson. 



COLLECTIONS. The sculpture hall contains 2 Hellenistic and 

 Roman marbles and 1 1 casts of classical figures and groups of stat- 

 uary, in addition to mural decorations by John La Farge, Elihu Vedder, 

 Abbott Thayer, and Kenyon Cox. The Sophia Walker gallery con- 

 tains specimens of ancient glass, Roman sculpture, old Flemish tapes- 

 try, oriental ivory carvings, miniatures, etc., with paintings and 

 drawings by Corot, Millet, Troyon, Daubigny, R. Bonheur, Mauve, 

 La Farge, and other modern artists of high rank, and a bronze 

 relief portrait, by French, of Theophilus Wheeler Walker. The Bow- 

 doin gallery contains about 100 paintings, chiefly by early American 

 artists, and 150 original drawings by old and modern masters. The 

 Boyd gallery contains the Boyd collection of paintings; a collection of 

 Japanese and Chinese works of art, loaned by Professor William A. 

 Houghton; the Cowles collection of objects of oriental art, formerly 

 a part of the Houghton collection; the Virginia Dox collection of 

 objects of native American art; and other collections given or loaned 

 by friends of the college. An Assyrian room in the basement contains 

 5 gypsum slabs from Nineveh, carved in bas-relief and bearing cunei- 

 form inscriptions. These were presented in 1857 by Henri Byron 

 Haskell, Esq. There are also a few hundred lantern slides and a series 

 of heliotype reproductions of works of art. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Hon. James Bowdoin bequeathed his 

 collection to the college in 1811. The Boyd collection was presented 

 in 1810 and was supplemented in 1859 by the bequest of property 

 valued at over $10,000. These collections were housed in the college 

 chapel previous to the erection of the present building. 



