ANTHROPOLOGY 
at about this time was that of Mr. Andrew Ellicott Douglas. It num- Andrew 
bered 23,000 specimens, arranged to show synoptically the various oougias 
types occurring in North America. Mr. Douglas donated his entire Collection, 
collection to the Museum in 1901. 
In 1882 Mr. Heber R. Bishop presented a valuable collection il- Bishop 
lustrating the ethnology of British Columbia, gathered at his expense 
by Dr. J. W. Powell, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in that Province. 
It contained costly dresses, implements, carvings, etc. The large 
Haida canoe from the Bella Bella Indians, on exhibition at the Museum, 
was received in this collection. 
The collection of Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. N., was presented to Emmons 
First 
the Museum by the Trustees in 1888. It contained nearly 1,300 speci- collection, 
mens illustrating the ethnologj' of Alaska. Each specimen was ob- 2,000. 
tained by Lieutenant Emmons himself and was accompanied by 
records and full notes regarding the use made of each object by the 
natives. 
This collection was supplemented in 1894 by the "Emmons Second Emmons 
Collection," numbering 2,966 specimens, among them about 500 from coiTcction. 
the Bering Sea and Siberia. 
The Department of Anthropology^ was reorganized in 1894, "in 
order to illustrate the history of man in the same way as we are show- 
ing the history of animal life." The Emmons and Bishop collections, 
together with those of Sturgis and Terry, formed the most complete 
collection of anthropological material in this country. The develop- 
ment of the Department, however, had been somewhat neglected, for 
Professor Bickmore, who was nominally in charge of it, had been en- 
gaged in the development of the Department of Pubhc Instruction 
since early in the eighties. 
In 1894 the exhibition collection relating to man was confined to 
what is nowthe "Shell Hall" on the fifth floor, and the western half of 
the Bird Gallery on the third floor. There had been no systematic ex- 
plorations, no scientific publications. The Department has grown until 
at the present time the collections overflow eight large exhibition halls 
and twenty-five storage rooms, and the scientific publications fill a 
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