The Washington times., 1901-12-02
RAKING THE WORLD
FOR MUSEUM STORES.
RECENT IMPORTANT ACQUISITIONS
Egyptian Excavations for the
California Institution I'm Prog
ress Since IS09-ProEress Made
in Various Lines of work.

BERKELEY. Cal, Dec. IA big struc-
ture of corrugated iron which stands just
south of the university buildings is the
first evidence OF tae great museum which
is to be established at the University of
California. For the present the structure
will house the vast amount of important
and valuable material which has already
been gathered by the expeditions and
purchasing agents at work in many lands.
The archaeological researches which are
and have been in progress for some years
in various parts of the world are yielding
results that have startled the scientihc
world and have turned number oil old
theories topsy turvy.
At present some of the best specialists
in the country are engaged in anthropolo-
gicaI research work for the University Of
California in this country and in foreign
lands. To maintain the work now going
on requires $500 a year.
Growth of the Researches.
The researches have grown to such ex-
tent, diversity and Importance that for
their better direction and coordination
the new department of arthropology was
recently established at the State institu-
tion. For the present the new department
is wholly one OF research. When the mu-
scum and the anthropological library shall
have attained the necessary development
instruction will be offered.
The university's Egyptian excavations
have been in progress since September.
1899. under the direction of Dr. George A.
Reisner, who has been assisted by A. NJ.
Lythgoe and Mr.. Greene. DR.. Bernhard,
p. Grenfell and DR.. Arthur S. Hunt con-
Quoted the excavations for the univer-
sity in the Fayoum with very notable sue
cess. Dr. Reisner returned to Egypt in
September TO inaugurate the winter cam
paign. He spent the summer at Goet-
tingen and Berlin. at work upon the first
volume of the publication which is TO re-
cord the results secured in Egypt.
The museum of Greek, Roman md Afri-
can antiquities will have as iu nucleus
the collections made by DR.. Emerson dur
ing the past two years. Dr.. Emerson
went again to Italy in September in
search of material. His collections are
particularly full in vases, terra Gotta. an
cient glassware and bronze.
At Work in Peru.
DIR. Max Ule will spend five years in
Peru. His work at Huamachuco. at Viva
cochapampa. and in the Department Of
lea, has yielded considerable collection
and much information of scientific value.
Capt. Sydney A Cloman, formerly pro-
fessor of military science at the Uniyer-
sity of California, has undertaken 10 eX-
pend sums provided by Mrs. Hearst for the
purchase of objects illustrative of Philip
pine ethpology. Various collections repre-
senting aboriginal lif' in California have
also beer purchased for the university.
Alfred L. Kroeber, already known for
his valuable work among the Aranahoes,
has begun researches in linguistics, folk
lore. and ethnology among the Indian
groups dwelling in Trinity County, north
and west of the regions of the Pomo and
the Maidu- Pliny Goddard is at work in
the same general region among the Atha-
bascan tribes near the Pomo Indians.
Each is provided with funds for the pur-
chase Of chronological material.
Research has also been undertaken un-
der the personal direction of Prof. Put
nam and Prof Merriam into the question
OF the antiquity of man in California
MrsS NuttalI, of the advisory committee
Of the new department. will devote the
next five or six years to gathering for the
university books, casts, squeezes, plans.
photographs. and collections which viii,
she hopes. make Berkeley the best place
available for the study OF Mexican and
Central American antiquities. She will
bequeath to the university her private
library and collections. Mrs. Nuttall is
one of the best specialists in the world in
these subjects. Her discovery of the most
important Aztec manuscript knOwn-there
are but eight others-and the recent pub
lication b. Harvard University of her
book, THE Fundamental Principles of
New and Old World Civilizations" has
won for her high scientific reputation.