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Professor Jenks now commenced in earnest the 

 work of fitting up at his own expense, the new or 

 East room for the rapidly accumulating stores of 

 Anthropological material. He employed a foreman 

 and four carpenters, constructed a large arch way 

 connecting the two rooms, made a skylight, and up- 

 wards of thirty glass cases. This he did in addition 

 to his previous donations. In his report for 1892, he 

 says: "This additional room makes it possible for 

 me to begin to realize what college museums of 

 Zoology and Anthropology should be; and I trust it 

 may please the All-wise Disposer of all earthly 

 events to spare my life till my ideal shall have an 

 approximate completion; — for as God's works of 

 creation are infinite in variety and utility, so there 

 can never be more than an approximation to that 

 variety in any one museum collection." In his final 

 report to President Andrews, published since his 

 decease, he says : — "There is urgent need of another 

 room for the Mineralogical and Geological cabinets, 

 both that they may have the display worthy of their 

 merit, and that the space they now anomalously 

 occupy in the Museum of Zoology, may be utilized 

 more legitimately, according to plans I have in mind, 

 for constructing at my own expense, extension cases 

 for specialties not yet attached to the Museum." 



These cases he never lived to construct. His 

 work was finished. On Wednesday, September 26th, 

 he appeared in good health, attended to his duties, 

 and went to his dinner as usual. Returning he was 



