U8 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



$50,000 left to him by Mr. Francis C. Gray for the establishment of 

 a museum, to be under the charge of an independent faculty, responsi- 

 ble only to the corporation and overseers of Harvard University. 

 Harvard granted to the museum the land it now occupies, and the 

 construction of the building was begun in 1859. In addition to its 

 initial grant of $100,000, which was paid in three years (1861, 1863, 

 and 1864) the legislature of Massachusetts has paid to the museum 

 the sum of $193,500. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By the income from an endowment of 

 about $600,000. 



BUILDING. Various portions of the building have been erected 

 in 1859-60, 1871-72, 1877, 1880-82, 1888-89, and 1901-02. The 

 building with its collections and libraries represents an outlay of more 

 than $1,225,000. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to a museum faculty. 



SCOPE. Research and exploration. Facilities for instruction 

 in zoology and geology are provided for students in Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and exhibiton collections for the use of the public. 



LIBRARY. About 46,000 volumes. 



PUBLICATIONS, (i) Annual reports; (2) Bulletin, of which 51 

 volumes had been issued at the end of 1909; (3) Memoirs, of which 

 30 volumes have been published. These publications are issued 

 at irregular intervals, one volume of the Bulletin and a half volume 

 of the Memoirs usually appearing annually. They are devoted to 

 the publication of original work by the staff and of investigations 

 carried on by students and others in the laboratories, or by specialists 

 on the museum collections. 



ATTENDANCE. The exhibition collections of the museum are 

 open free to the public on week-days, except Christmas and Fourth 

 of July, from 9 to 5, and on Sundays from i to 5. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Department of Architecture. 



This department is housed in Nelson Robinson Jr. Hall, which 

 contains on the ground floor a Hall of Casts, running through two 

 stories. It contains a number of full-size models of details from impor- 

 tant architectural monuments; a remarkably fine series of casts from 

 Greek architectural detail, made for the department in Athens and 

 including several casts from objects never hitherto reproduced; an 

 important series of original fragments, chiefly marble, of Greek, 

 Roman, and Italian renaissance detail; and valuable loan collections 

 of oriental embroideries, textiles, prints, architectural drawings > 



