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walk from the Illinois Central Station, 5Yth 

 Street, and ten minutes' walk from the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



The location of the offices of the building 

 is as follows: the director's office is at the 

 southeast comer of the South Court; anthro- 

 pology, east end of East Court gallery; bot- 

 any, north end of North Court gallery; geol- 

 ogy, in halls 73 and 74; zoology, southwest 

 corner of the West Court; the printing office 

 is at the top of the west end of the West 

 Court, and the section of photography, at the 

 top of the east end of the East Court; the 

 taxidermist's shop is at the northeast corner 

 of the main structure, entrance to which is 

 through hall 7. 



The museum comprises four departments: 

 Anthropology, Botany, Geology and Zoology. 



The Department of Anthropology occu- 

 pies the entire eastern half of the building. 

 It may be most easily visited by pursuing the 

 following plan : On entering the museum at 

 the main door one finds oneself in the North 

 Court, where is installed the exhibits of classi- 

 fied archeology from Italy and prehistoric 

 archeology from Europe. The most remark- 

 able specimens in the court are to be found 

 in the south end of the court, where are ex- 

 hibited several interesting Etruscan tombs as 

 well as the contents of several trench tombs, 

 and the mural decorations of bronze bath tubs 

 from the Villa of Bosce Eeale on the east 

 side. From the North Court one may pass 

 through the reading room — hall 28 — to hall 

 34, devoted exclusively to archeology. From 

 hall 34 one should proceed to examine halls 

 30 and 31, and pass from hall 30 into the 

 West Covirt where the collections illustrating 

 the tribes of the Caddoan Stock may be seen 

 in alcoves 1, 6, 7 and 8. From the West Court 

 one may proceed to the South Court and ex- 

 amine the Tlingit collection in the alcoves on 

 the east side and enter room 10, continuation 

 of the Tlingit collection, and examine the 

 collections of the northwest coast, which are 

 found in halls 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Halls 

 16 and 17 represent the ethnology of the Hopi 

 of Arizona and are of special interest on ac- 

 count of the life-sized reproduction of many 

 important religious articles. From 17 one 



passes into hall 18 devoted to ethnology of the 

 tribes of the plains. The East Court may 

 next be visited by passing through hall 12. 

 The East Court is devoted exclusively to 

 archeology, the alcoves on the south being 

 devoted to South American archeology, those 

 on the north side to North American archeol- 

 ogy. The cases in the center of the court are 

 devoted to Mexican and North American 

 archeology. In alcove 83 of this court is to 

 be found the remarkable collection from Hope- 

 well group of earth works in Eoss Co., Ohio. 

 Of special interest are the implements and 

 ornaments of copper and meteoric iron, carv- 

 ings in bone, stone and mica; large obsidian 

 knives of unusual size, and a cache of over 

 7,000 flint implements of rough form. In this 

 court is also found a remarkable series of 

 large carvings from the North Pacific Coast, 

 chiefly from Haidas and Kwaklutl, and from 

 the East Court one enters through alcove 82 

 to hall 3, devoted to the ethnology of the 

 Columbia Eiver tribes, of special importance 

 being a series of stone carvings from near 

 The Dales; hall 4 is devoted to the Eskimo, 

 hall 5 to Arapaho and Cheyenne and hall 6 

 to the Non Pueblo of the southwest. Passing- 

 through hall 9 one enters hall 8, containing 

 the prehistoric collections from Arizona and 

 New Mexico. To the east of hall 8 is the 

 East Annex, temporarily closed to the public, 

 but admission will be given those especially 

 interested. In this section is being installed 

 the ethnological collfjtions from Asia, Africa 

 and the Islands of t' e Pacific. The provision 

 and assignment of halls is as follows : Halls 

 37, 38, 39, 40 and 55— Indonesia; 54— Poly- 

 nesia; 53 — Melanesia and Micronesia; 52, 51 

 and 50— Africa; 56, 57, 58 and 41— Asia; 49 

 — Physical Anthropology. A temporary ex- 

 hibition of skulls and skeletons, illustrating 

 certain phases of anthropology, are to be found 

 on the south side of the gallery of the East 

 Court. From the East Court, or from hall 8, 

 one returns to the North Court, passing 

 through hall 9, which is devoted to the arche- 

 ology of Egypt. This collection contains a 

 large number of interesting and well-preserved 

 coffins, a large series of mortuary stellaB, an 

 interesting mortuary cedar boat about 4,500 



