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WOODS HOLE: 



UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



The bureau main tains here a collection of living fishes and inverte- 

 brates, and a collection of alcoholic specimens representing the marine 

 fauna of Buzzards Bay and of Vineyard and Nantucket sounds. 



WORCESTER: 



AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



This society, founded in 1812, is said by Thwaites to maintain a 

 collection of valuable portraits, antiques, and manuscripts, as well as 

 cabinets of Indian and Mexican relics in its hall, erected in 1878. 



CLARK UNIVERSITY. Clark Memorial Collection. 



In accordance with the wishes of the founder of the university, 

 Jonas Oilman Clark, a room 75 x 48 feet has been set apart in the 

 library building for the exhibition of 74 of his best pictures and the 

 books which he prized most highly. The gallery has an endowment of 

 $100,000 yielding an income of about $4000 annually. It is in charge 

 of Louis N. Wilson, librarian. 



In an addition to the library building in course of erection in 1910 

 one floor will be devoted to a pedagogical museum, concerning which 

 information is not yet available. 



WORCESTER ART MUSEUM. 



STAFF. Director, Philip J. Centner; Assistants to the director, 

 Benjamin H. Stone, Elizabeth M. Gardiner; Custodian, Arthur H. 

 Stebbins; Attendant, Anna D. Hackett; 8 other employees. 



ART. The collections include some 75 oil paintings, of which the 

 most noteworthy are, "An Arrangement in Black and Brown: The 

 Fur Jacket" by James McNeill Whistler; 3 "Portraits" by William 

 Hogarth; "Christ disputing with the Doctors" by Herrera; "The 

 Venetian Blind" by Edmund C. Tarbell; "Portrait of My Daughters" 

 by Frank W. Benson; " Prelude" by Willard L. Metcalf ; landscapes by 

 Inness and Twachtman; portraits by Copley and Stuart; stained 

 glass window, representing a peacock, by John LaFarge; the Bancroft 

 collection of Japanese prints, numbering about 5000; the Russell 

 collection of engravings by Sir Robert Strange; a collection of about 

 500 engravings by American engravers ; collections of casts from anti- 

 que and renaissance sculpture; porcelains, bronzes, cloisonne, and bric- 

 a-brac, oriental, European, and American; and a few original marbles 

 and bronzes. In addition, a collection of photographs was started in 

 the fall of 1909 to give a comprehensive view of ancient and modern 



