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and relics of the Seminole Indians. The year 1885, 

 following the lamented death of his wife, he spent 

 in travel, visiting every state and territory in the 

 Union, including Alaska, and also the Sandwich 

 Islands, Mexico, British Columbia, Manitoba and 

 Canada. Wherever he went he made collections of 

 specimens for the Museum, and arranged with 

 dealers for future correspondence. From this time 

 on until the close of life his winters were spent in 

 Florida, at a place which he termed Oak Lodge, on 

 the Eastern coast. 



Suffer me a few words more. In the year 1874 

 an addition was made to Rhode Island Hall, giving 

 a separate room for the portraits, and enabling the 

 Curator to complete the wall cases. Eventually the 

 portraits were transferred to Sayles Memorial Hall, 

 the botanical specimens were given over to the care 

 of Professor Bailey, a department of Botany having 

 been established in the College, and the new or East 

 Room was devoted exclusively to Anthropology. 

 At the annual meeting of the Corporation, in Sep- 

 tember, 1 891, the main or west room was designated 

 as the Jenks Museum of Zoology, to be recognized 

 as such in the catalogues, and in the future history 

 of the University. This was done in view not only 

 of the persevering and self-sacrificing efforts of the 

 founder, but also of his donations made from the 

 savings of a small salary, and amounting at that time, 

 according to his own statement, to upwards of six 

 thousand dollars. 



