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The museum is temporarily installed in the old gymnasium of 

 Harvard University. About $190,000 has been collected for a new 

 building. 



The museum is open free to the public on Mondays, Fridays, and 

 Saturdays from 9 to 5, and on Thursdays and Sundays from 1 to 5. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Gray Herbarium. 



The Gray Herbarium comprises over 438,000 herbarium sheets of 

 flowering plants, and a library of over 20,000 books and pamphlets 

 relating to systematic botany. The staff is as follows : Curator and 

 professor of systematic botany, B. L. Robinson; Collector, C. G. 

 Pringle; Assistant professor, M. L. Fernald; Librarian, Mary A. Day; 

 Assistants, Edith M. Vincent and Isabel W. Anderson. The financial 

 support consists of the income from invested funds, gifts for present 

 use, and royalties on and sale of publications. The institution is 

 open to the public during the working hours of the staff, but as there 

 are no exhibits it is seldom visited except for scientific purposes. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Semitic Museum. 



Staff. Curator, David G. Lyon; Curator of Arabic manuscripts, 

 John Orne; 1 janitor. 



Art. Plaster casts of bas-reliefs and other carvings of Assyria, 

 Babylonia, and other Semitic lands. 



Botany. Specimens of pressed flowers, woods, seeds, and fruits 

 of Palestine. 



Geology. Geological specimens from Syria and Palestine. 



Zoology. Birds of Palestine, 2oo±; Mammals of Palestine, 40. 



Other Departments. Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopx, Samari- 

 tan, and other manuscripts; Greek papyri; coins from Palestine, or 

 re ating to Palestine; cuneiform inscriptions from Assyria and Baby- 

 lonia; ancient vases and glass from Syria and Palestine; articles illus- 

 trating present customs and usages in Semitic lands; and original ob- 

 jects and reproductions from Egypt and Persia illustrating Semitic 

 history. 



Historical Sketch. Founded in 1889 by a gift of $10,000 from 

 Jacob H. Schiff , who also gave the building. The museum was opened 

 to the public in 1891 and occupied a room in the Peabody Museum until 

 the erection of the new building in 1902. Mr. Schiff and other friends 

 have contributed about $40,000 more toward the purchase of material. 

 Mr. Schiff has also given $65,000 for explorations in Palestine under 

 the auspices of the museum. 



