H6 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



have resulted in its becoming at present a museum of general anthro- 

 pology. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. The original Peabody endowment of 

 $150,000 was divided into three funds: a building fund of $60,000, -a 

 collection fund of $45,000, and a professorship fund of $45,000. The 

 following endowments have since been established : the Thaw fellow- 

 ship of $30,000, the Hemenway fellowship of $10,000, the Winthrop 

 scholarship of $5000, the Huntington Frothingham Wolcott fund of 

 $20,000, the Henry C. Warren fund of $10,000, and the Susan C. 

 Warren fund of $5000. For the past three years a fellowship in 

 Central American archeology has been maintained by a friehd of 

 the museum. Other gifts for various purposes are received each 

 year. 



BUILDING. In 1877 the first section of the present fireproof 

 building on Divinity Avenue was erected. In 1889 the second por- 

 tion of the building was erected, forming one-half of the structure 

 planned for the southern wing of the university museum. The com- 

 pletion is required for the proper exhibition of the collections. 



SCOPE. Exploration and research, and university teaching. The 

 museum is especially noted for its many and thorough explorations, 

 especially of the shellheaps and village sites of the Atlantic states, 

 and the burial places, village sites, mounds, and earthworks of the 

 Ohio Valley; for its long continued researches in the Delaware Valley; 

 and for its expeditions to Central and South America. 



LIBRARY. 3847 volumes and 3960 pamphlets covering all branches 

 of anthropology and especially rich in complete sets of the anthropo- 

 logical series of publications of the world. 



PUBLICATIONS, (i) Annual reports; (2) Papers; (3) Memoirs; 

 (4) Special publications. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to the public on week-days, except holi- 

 days, from 9 to 5. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Botanical Section of the University 

 Museum. 



No reply has been received to requests for information regard- 

 ing the collections of this .department, which include extensive 

 cryptogamic herbaria; economic exhibits; the Ware collection of 

 Blaschka glass models of plants and flowers; etc. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Geological Section of the University 

 Museum. 



This section, for which three rooms are provided, is as yet incom- 

 plete. The more noteworthy objects at present include the Curtis 



