WS NATIONAL lUsHuU VE 
The Rau Library of Archzology. 
Now 27 7. 
Dr. CHarRLes Rav was boy 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 Archzeology in the National Museum, 
which position he held at the time of his death, July 25, 1887. 
He bequeathed his Archzeologic collections and library to 
the U. S. National Museum. 
