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are papyri and ostraka. The Assyro-Babylonian collection embraces 

 iooo numbers, including clay tablets and various products of the 

 craftsman. The Palestinian collection is chiefly educational. A loan 

 collection belonging to Dr. Edmund Buckley well covers Japanese 

 Buddhism and Shinto. The museum possesses several valuable Pali 

 manuscripts, and a series of East Indian paintings. 



Historical Sketch. The collections were begun by the present 

 director, who spent the winter of 1894-5 in Egypt laying the founda- 

 tion of the Egyptian collection. Since then the museum has been in 

 almost constant connection with some research enterprise in the field 

 of the hither Orient. With the organization of the Oriental Explora- 

 tion Fund of the University of Chicago, the Assyro-Babylonian collec- 

 tion has also received valuable accessions. 



Financial Support. The museum shares the general budget of 

 the university. The collections are largely due to private subscrip- 

 tions from members of the Chicago Society of Egyptian Research and 

 from subscribers to the Egypt Exploration Fund. The finds of the 

 Oriental Exploration Fund, which has an income of $10,000 a year, are 

 presented to the museum. 



Building. Erected in 1895-6, at a cost of $100,000, the gift of 

 Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell. 



Administration. By a director, responsible to the University of 

 Chicago board of museums. 



Scope. The chief purpose of the museum is research and 

 exploration, but the collections are used also for teaching purposes in 

 the university. 



Library. Over 18,000 volumes, devoted chiefly to history, 

 archeology, philology, paleogeography, and theology, and used by 

 members of the staff and students of the university. 



Publications. The reports of field work (Oriental Exploration 

 Fund) appear in the "American Journal of Semitic Languages." 



Attendance. Open free to the public. 



UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Walker Museum. 



Staff. Director, T. C. Chamberlin; Curators, R. D. Salisbury 

 (geography and geology), S. W. Williston (vertebrate paleontology), 

 Stuart Weller (invertebrate paleontology), W. H. Emmons (economic 

 geology and mineralogy), Frederick Starr (anthropology); Associate 

 curator, W. F. E. Gurley (paleontology) ; Assistant curator, Paul Miller 

 (vertebrate paleontology). 



Anthropology. General collections in archeology and ethnology, 



