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U. S. National Museum. 



The Rau Library of Archaeology. 



Dr. Charles Rau was born in Belgium in 1826. He 

 came to the United States in 1848, and was engaged as 

 teacher at Belleville, Illinois, and in New York. In 1875 he 

 accepted an invitation from the Smithsonian Institution to 

 prepare an ethnological exhibit to be displayed at the Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition, and subsequently was appointed Curator 

 of the department of Archaeology in the National Museum, 

 which position he held at the time of his death, July 25, 1887. 

 He bequeathed his Archaeological collections and library to 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



