The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-19
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.
THE GREAT EXHIBIT 1T WILL
SHOW AT ATLANTA.
A Particularly Comprehensive and
Instructive Display by the Ma
tiona. Museum and the Bureau OF
Ethnotorax

uonn. museum ana the bureau OF
EthnotoEy.
From the New York Post.
Washington. Aug. l2.-The exhibit of
the Smithsonian Institution at the expo
sition win be in the government build
ing, and is intended to cover every branch
of the Smithsonian's own activities and
those of its dependencies. especially the
National Museum and the bureau of Eth
nolOgy. Ii will occupy all of the south
east quarter of the main structure except
the rectangle adjacent to the DOME
signed TO the postofiice department. The
cases will be arranged in alcoves to face
both sides of an L-shaped aisle fifteen
feet wide and $50 feet long. At the en-
frances of the alcoves will be placed d
series of twelve costumed figures repre-
senting the four races of mankind, each
appearing in well-recognized types. These
have almost all been made especially for
this exhibit, and the costumes in which
they are shown have never been displayed
in public before. The white race is repre-
scented by an Arab shelk, the ngure made
by HILBERT, a replica of a figure in the
1rocadero Museum in Paris; an Armenian,
the ngure OF Theodore A. Mills OF Wash
ington; and a Moor, also by Mills. The
yellow race is represented by Mongol,
a Siamese, and an Eskimo. all by Mills.
The red-brown race is represented by Oh
American indiana JalVaro, the type
Columbus first saw, and allied to certain
Indians formerly inhabiting our Gulf
coast; a Maori done by II. }. Ellicott, ami
a Dyak by Mills. The black race Is repre-
scented by a Papuan, made by Mills, an
Australian by Mills, and Zulu by Eli
colt.
In addition to these merely typical fig
ures there will be another of especial
interest to the people of Georgia, in
portrait statue of the great war chief
Osceola. 1t was modelled by Archie Colin,
a French sculptor, after a contemporary
painting, and is pronounced an exceed
ingly accurate reproduction, not only of
the features, but of the costume of Osce-
ola worn at the time of his greatest
power.
The Smithsonian will exhibit 200 vol
umes published by it during it's fifty years
of existence. Its bureau of International
exchanges-for il is one of the functions
of this Institution to conduct for the United
States government an exchange of copies
of all its public documents for those of
other governments-win exhibit its work
by means of a great wall map showing
the location of its 1900 foreign and domes-
tic correspondents, and one of the fifty
annual sets Of documents which it sends
abroad.
With the first alcove, nearest the main
south entrance of the building, begins the
exhibit of the National Museum, which is
intended to be an epitome of the mu-
seum's entire collection. This alcove Is
devoted to large quadrupeds, with espe-
cial reference to those of North America,
but including synoptical collection of the
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types. Several groups, stuffed and mount
ed amid accessories resembling the OBJ
jects which surrounded them In life, will
illustrate the appearance and habits OF
the leading North American mammals,
among them two very fine groups of
Rocky Mountain goats and sheep.
The next aicove contains American
birds. mounted so as to show their nat
ural surroundings. The walls will be de-
voted to a collection from the department
of comparative anatomy, showing the
structure of the animal kingdom and the
characteristics on which its most inn
portant divisions are based. Models will
be found there showing the development
of various animals from tie egg stage to
the complete form; also skeletons show
ing the notifications of various types of
animal life for the purpose of locomotion
of different kinds-through the air, on
land, in the water, etc.
In the next alcONeS VIII De an eNnlDlt
of systematic zoology, showing represen-
tatives of every family of lower animals
from sponge to insect, also the families
of fishes. No general exhibition Of rep
tiles will be made, but there will be shown
group of the poisonous serpents of North
America.
Geology, mineralogy and palaeontology
nearly fill the next pair of alcoves. A part
of the wall space will be given up to the
department of botany, which will pre-
sent a striking. collection of the forest fora
of Japan, mounted by Japanese artists In
this space also will be a case showing
the composition of the human body, by
displaying in bottles the exact quantity
of each substance to be found in a man
of average size-l54 pounds-and in par
allel series the quantities of each element
in the same mans body.
A synoptical collection of minerals show
ing their physical properties and the meth
DDS of their classification will be a lead
ing feature and there will also be a full
case of neteorites. The principal geolog-
ical exhibit will be that of the various
gold and silver ores and the manner of
their occurrence. Palaeontology will be
represented by a synoptical collection, and
also by the skeleton, fifty-five feet long,
of whale known as the zeuglodon, an ex-
tinct form found only in Georgia and the
adjacent states. This whale closely re-
sembles the seal in many respects. Its
restoration, which has now been attempted
for the first time. is based upon every
full material collected for the museum in
Georgia and Alabama.
The next alcove will contain an exhibit
of prehistoric archaeology, showing in con-
densed form the arts of primitive man in
America and Europe, together with a
small but carefully selected collection of
North American aboriginal pottery.
This brings the visitors to the angle OF
the L, and to an aicove which occupies a
circular tower at the southeast corner of
the building. Here will be displayed a
special collection illustrating the histo-
ry and development of games in all parts
of the world; 1t has been made in Coop
Grafton with the University of Pennsyl-
vania. and arranged by the curator of the
university museum, Mr.. Stewart Culn,
the leading authority on the subject. The
games represented are chess and cards.
The elements of playing-cards are shown
to be common to all cultures, from the
most primitive to the present. This col
lection shows the origin Of ca rds in the
carved butts of arrows. the same arrows
made of paper in corea, then the cards of
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