and 

 Specialists 



HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Those who have served on the scientific staff as assistants are : 



Dr. Berthold Laufer, 1904-6. Dr. Laufer had conducted work in 

 Siberia and Japan in connection with the Jesup North Pacific Expedi- 

 tion, and was in charge of the work of the East Asiatic Committee in 

 China. 



Charles W. Mead, 1905- 



George H. Pepper, 1905-8. 



Alanson Skinner, 1909- 

 Advisers The scientific work of the Department has been especially advanced 



by the researches of Dr. Adolf F. Bandelier in Peru and adjacent South 

 American countries; by those of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka in physical anthro- 

 pology; by those of Mr. Waldemar Jochelson and Dr. Waldemar Bo- 

 goras in Siberian ethnology; and of Professors A. L. Kroeber and R. B. 

 Dixon among the Indians of California. Among other distinguished 

 anthropologists who have made investigations for the Department are 

 Professor Albert E. Jenks, Dr. John R. Swanton, Dr. William Jones, Dr. 

 Frank G. Speck, Mr. H. H. St. Clair, Jr., Mr. Ernest Volk, and Dr. Carl 

 Lumholtz. 



CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



ANTHROPOLOGY 



GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 



H. E. Bard, William Demuth, 



Belgian Government, Cleveland H. Dodge, 



Mrs. Albert Bierstadt, Andrew Ellicott Douglas, 



Heber R. Bishop, James Douglas, 



Henry M. Booth, Lieut. G. T. Emmons, 



George S. Bowdoin, Government of Nicaragua, 



Barnum Brown, Archer M. Huntington, 



Dr. Walter Charming, C. P. Huntington, 



Christian Missions, B. T. B. Hyde, 



Miss E. H. Cotheal, Dr. F. E. Hyde, 



Mrs. William de Forest, F. E. Hyde, Jr. 



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