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We are under obligation to Mr. E. T. Jeffery, President of the 
Denver and Rio Grande R. R. Co., Marvin Hughitt, Esq., Presi- 
dent Chicago and Northwestern Ry. Co., and John King, Esq., 
President N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R. Co., for courtesies extended 
to the staff of the department. 
Department of Archaeology and Ethnology. — The 
Terry Collection, containing some 26,000 numbers, has been 
(with the exception of the material from New York State and 
Pennsylvania) arranged and placed on permanent exhibition 
in the new building, occupying cases A B and C and the three 
desk cases opposite ; it also occupies the major portion of case D, 
and part of E, space being left to interpolate other Museum 
material. The Sturgis Collection, representing the island life of 
the Pacific Ocean, has been similarly treated. Lack of space 
prevents the display of all the material in this collection, and a 
considerable amount of it is carefully packed and stored, and is 
waiting the completion of another addition to the Museum. 
The important collection of Jadeites, Nephrites and objects of 
allied material, numbering 494 specimens, gathered by Mr. George 
F. Kunz, has been purchased by the Trustees. This unique 
collection will be exhibited early in 1893. 
A most important accession to this department and the Museum 
during the past year is the material obtained by the Henry Villard 
Expedition to Peru, South America. At present we have received 
twenty packages containing pottery, textile fabrics, weaving 
implements, mummies, sculptures and more than three hundred 
gold, silver and copper ornaments, the result of thorough research 
and excavation at the ruins of Pachacamac and Surco. Detail 
plans and colored drawings of these ruins have been made by the 
explorer. The expedition (supported entirely at the expense of 
Mr. Villard) has for its object an extended research into the Inca 
civilization of Peru, and is to cover a period of three years before 
the completion of the work. 
Mr. Ad. F. Bandelier, to whom has been intrusted, by Mr. 
Villard, this important work, is well known as one of the foremost 
Archaeologists of this country. 
