120 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



Attendance. Free on week-days from 9 to 5 and on Sundays dur- 

 ing term time from 1 to 5. There are no statistics of general visitors, 

 but 1 201 persons visited the photograph collection for purposes of 

 study in the year 1908-9. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Botanical Garden. 



No reply has been received to requests for information concerning 

 this department. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Collection of Classical Antiquities. 



This collection is in charge of Professor George Henry Chase, cur- 

 ator, and is intended primarily to serve as illustrative material for 

 the courses in archeology and antiquity. It consists of several hun- 

 dred objects of minor art, such as bronzes, vases, and coins, as wel^ as 

 specimens of marble, bricks, and other building materials, fragments 

 of mozaic, inscriptions, etc. With these are a few casts of ancient 

 sculpture, a considerable collection of photographs (principally of 

 places in Greece and Italy) , several hundred squeezes and rubbings of 

 inscriptions, and a number of models of ancient utensils. The objects 

 in the collection are always at the disposal of the students and can be 

 taken out, if necessary, for study and comparison with similar col- 

 lections in Boston and Cambridge. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Germanic Museum. 



The museum is in charge of Kuno Francke, curator. It was estab- 

 lished in 1902, at the instigation of Professor Francke, through col- 

 lections undertaken by the visiting board of the Germanic department 

 and by the Germanic Museum Association; but its present status is 

 largely due to important donations received from the German Emperor, 

 the King of Saxony, and a committee of leading German scholars, 

 artists, and men of affa'rs at Berlin. The Swiss government also, 

 as well as the municipal government of the city of Muremburg, has 

 given valuable aid. 



The aim of the museum is to give a historical conspectus of the 

 development of Germanic culture as represented by the fine arts and 

 the crafts. The present collection, apart from a large number of pho- 

 tographs of German architectural and sculptural monuments, chiefly 

 from the Koniglich Preussische Messbildanstalt, contains models 

 and reproductions of representative works of German art from the 

 5th to the iSth century. The collection of casts of medieval and 

 renaissance sculpture contained in this museum is more comprehen- 

 sive than that of any other museum devoted to German art. 



