Something More About the Peabody Museum.

The amount of exhibits in the museum has been greatly increased. This is due in a very large degree to the interest that the friends of the museum take in its welfare. Mr. Charles P. Bowditch, who traveled recently in Mezico, has obtained a collection there which has great value in trowing light on Mexican archaeology. Another valuable Mexican collection has been formed from numerous objects of interest which Mrs. Warren purchased during her travels in Mexico. Through the generosity of Mr. Stephen Salisbury the museum will be able to represent the front of an ancient palace at Labua. Casts of the building will be taken from moulds made by Mr. Edward Thompson. The casts are valuable as showing the strange workmanship in the old stone carvings of the palace. A collection of human skulls found near Zuni has been presented by Mrs. Hemenway; this collection will be of great assistance in comparative study.

Besides these collections are the trophies which Miss Fletcher got among the Indians, and which have already been mentioned. Various other articles of archaeological and ethnological interest have been given to the museum, among the most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone.

In connection with the work of the museum Professor Putnam had been carrying on investigations in different parts of the continent. The most important and most productive explorations have been going on in the Little Miami Valley. Here two camps have been established, one at the Turner group where Professor Putnam and Dr. Metz have been exploring for the past ten years: the other about twenty miles further up the river. At the former camp two ancient hearths have been found in the gravels, one of which, the "Cresson Hearth," is the largest ever found. Among the skeletons found in the graves along the valley several interesting implements have been discovered. Of some of these specimens there have never been any duplicates found. At the other camp is a very singular structure of burnt clay and stones. This had long been an object of interest. This is such a broad field for archaeological study that the second camp has been established here. The work of these camps has been extremely satisfactory, and the camps themselves have been training schools for those who are to carry on the investigations still further.

The Peabody Museum has been recognized as a part of the Graduate School. It offers a system of instruction which five students have availed themselves of. Three are private students taking laboratory instruction and two are members of the Graduate Department who are studying for a Ph. D. In addition to this, lectures are given now and then by Professor Putnam to assemblies in the main hall.