HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 
Advisers 
and 
Specialists. 
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- 
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 Hrdhcka 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 
ANTHROPOLOGY 
GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 
OF 
H. E. Bard, 
Belgian Government, 
Mrs. Albert Bierstadt, 
Heber R. Bishop, 
Henry M. Booth, 
George S. Bowdoin, 
Barnum Brown, 
Dr. Walter Channing, 
Christian Missions, 
Miss E. H. Cotheal, 
Mrs. William de Forest, 
William Demuth, 
Cleveland H. Dodge, 
Andrew Ellicott Douglas, 
James Douglas, 
Lieut. G. T. Emmons, 
Government of Nicaragua , 
Archer M. Huntington, 
C. P. Huntington, 
B. T. B. Hyde, 
Dr. F. E. Hyde, 
F. E. Hyde, Jr. 
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