HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 
Jesup North 
Pacific 
Expedition, 
1897-1903, 
$60,070. 
Publications 
Jesup North 
Pacific 
Expedition, 
$25,000. 
score of volumes. Its growth is largely due to the many expeditions 
which have carried on research work throughout America and parts 
of Asia. First among these is the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 
which was organized by Mr. Morris K. Jesup, in 1897. Mr. Jesup 
provided the means for a thorough investigation of the tribes of the 
North Pacific coast of America and Asia, to determine their early 
relations with each other. Between 1897 and 1903 a number of ex- 
peditions were sent into the field, and the tribes of the North Pacific 
coast, beginning in the west with the Amur River in Siberia, including 
the various native tribes between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Arctic 
Sea, and the peoples of Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington 
were investigated. The collections brought home by the eleven 
collectors make up a very considerable portion of the ethnological 
collection of the Department. The scientific results are extensive, 
and important contributions to our knowledge of these tribes have 
been pubhshed in the "Memoirs" of the Museum. The publica- 
tions, which will fill twelve volumes, were also provided for by 
Mr. Jesup. 
The following summary gives by locality the principal collections 
which the Museum now possesses : 
New York 
State. 
NORTH AMERICA 
Arcileology 
The accession of the Terry Collection of 26,000 specimens, the 
Douglas Collection of 23,000, together with the Davis and Jones Col- 
lections, and other smaller ones, provided excellent general archseo- 
logical material from several localities, but it did not represent the 
archaeology of any definite area exhaustively, so one of the first under- 
takings was to send collectors to carry on researches in a few typical 
fields. 
Archffiological investigations in New York State— more particu- 
larly in the vicinity of New York City-were begun in 1895 and carried 
on for a number of years. Much of the expense of this work was 
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