II4 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



pages each, sold at 5 cents per copy, or $4 per hundred. These are 

 extensively used for class work in schools and colleges throughout 

 the United States. 



ATTENDANCE. Open to the public on payment of a fee of 25 

 cents on week-days from 9 to 5. The attendance during 1909 was 

 11,140. 



CAMBRIDGE: 



CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. (Public Library.) 



This society was organized in 1905 and has received by gift and 

 exchange a number of books and pamphlets of historical interest and 

 a few articles as the nucleus of a historical museum. The society has 

 published annual Proceedings since 1906. The collections are in 

 charge of Clarence Walter Ayer, curator. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 



The University Museum includes the Peabody Museum of Ameri- 

 can Archaeology and Ethnology; the Botanical, Geological, and 

 Mineralogical museums; and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 The museum of the Department of Architecture, the William Hayes 

 Fogg Art Museum, the Botanical Garden, the Collection of Classical 

 Antiquities, the Germanic Museum, the Gray Herbarium, the Semitic 

 Museum, and the Social Museum are separate institutions responsi- 

 ble independently to the president and fellows of Harvard University. 

 The museum of the Harvard Medical School is listed separately under 

 Boston. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Peabody Museum of American Ar- 

 chaeology and Ethnology (Anthropological Section of the 

 University Museum) . 



STAFF. Honorary curator in charge, Frederic W. Putnam; 

 Assistant curator, Charles C. Willoughby; Librarian and assistant 

 in ethnology, Roland B. Dixon; Assistant and secretary, Frances H. 

 Mead; Assistants, Jane Smith, Zelia Nuttall (Mexican archeology), 

 William C. Farabee (somatology), Alfred M. Tozzer (Central Ameri- 

 can archeology), Charles Peabody (European archeology), Richard 

 F. Carroll (library); Thaw fellow and assistant in ethnology, Alice 

 C. Fletcher; i fireman and janitor, and 2 caretakers. 



COLLECTIONS. The museum is especially rich in rare old ethno- 

 logical material pertaining to the North American Indians. By per- 

 sistant efforts to bring together in the Peabody Museum the ethno- 

 logical material in older institutions in Boston and vicinity, it has 



