Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14
the assistance of scientific specialists anC
artists of the highest standing.
Contributors to the Book.

dl llSIS VI the SIdIdiis.
Contributors to the Book.
The work has been going on ever since
and the following is a full list of the con-
tributors to the text of the volume:
DR.. George Frederick KunZ, editor in
charge.
DIR. Stephen w. Bushell.
DR.. Robert Liley.
Tadamasa Hayashi.
DIR. William Hallock. professor of physics
in Columbia University, New York.
DR.. S. l.. Penfield, professor of mineral
ogy. Yale University.
DIR. Henry w. Foote, Sheffield SCIENTIFIC
School, Yale University.
DR.. Joseph p Iddings, professor Of petrol
ogy. University of Chicago.
Prof. h w. Clarke. chief chemist, United
States geological survey.
Mr.. Ira Harvey Woolson, adjunct profess
sor of engineering, Columbia University.
Mr.. Logan Waller Page, division of chem
istry, Department of Agriculture. Wash
ingtOn
DIR. Charles Palche, professor of petrog-
raphy, Harvard University.
Mr.. Louis V. Prison. professor Of petrog-
raphy, Yale University.
DIR. Henry s. Washington. Photographer.
Prof. l.. Won Jaczewski, professor of min
erology, University of St. Petersburg.
DIR. A. B. Meyer, director museum, Ores
den.
Herr DR.. Max Bauer director mineral
ogissches. Marburg Institute.
Mr.. Robinson. artist.
DIR. Thomas Wilson, late curator prehis-
toric archaeology, Smithsonian Institution.
DR.. Joseph Edkins, Shanghai.
Prof. A. Damour, Paris.
Dr. Ludwig Leiner, curator Rosengarten
Museum, Constance.
Mrs. Zella Nuttall, Peabody Museum,
Cambridge Mass
Miss Eliza Scidmore Washington, D. C.
DIR. f. Berwerth, Hof Museum, Vienna.
Prof Ernst Weinschenk, Mineralogfsches
Institute, Munich.
Distribution of the Book.
The distribution of the volumes Is limited,
as 1 have already said, to important libra
ries and museums of art In addition to the
two copies sent to the Library of Congress,
Washington receives third, which will be
deposited in the National Museum. New
York gets five copies which go to the
Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Nat
ural History, the public library, Columbia
University and the Grolier Club. Boston
gets three for the Museum of Fine Arts,
the public library and Harvard University.
Philadelphia gets two copies, which will be
deposited at the Free Library and Grard
0oHege. Johns Hopkins and the Enoch
Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, the Car
neg1e Museum of Pittsburg the BROOKLYN
Institute Of Science and Art. Yale. Cornell.
princeton, the University of California the
University OF Toronto and McGill Univer-
siL y, of Montreal are also favored.
F1eld Museum. the Art Institute and the
John Crerar Library. The only other copies
IN the United States have been allotted to
the state library at Albany, the state IL
brary at Richmond, the public libraries al
81. Louis and st. Paul. the Golden Gate
Museum of San Francisco and a little il
brary which Mr.. Bishop founded at his ma
tive town of Medford, Mass.
one copy goes to the national library of
Mexico, eight copies to England, which will
be deposited in the British Museum: the
South kensington Museum, the University
OF London, the Bodleian Library at Oxford,
the University library at Cambridge, the
t1tZwillan Museum at Cambridge the city
libraries et Birmingham and Manchester
and the libraries of the universities of ST
Andrew, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aber-
deem.
Nine copies go to Germany, to the uni
versities of Berlin, Munich Marburg. Bres-
lau and Heidelberg; to the museums of
Berhn and Dresden, to the Imperial Library
OF Berlin and the Neurological Institute
of Hesse.
France gets three copies only, which go
10 the National Library, the Museum of
Natural History and the Louvre at Paris.
Vienna also gets three copies and Buda-
Pesth one One copy is sent to the library
or the Vatican, another to the Victor
Emanuel Library at Rome, and single
copies go to the national library at Flor
ence, the royal libraries at Madrid, Copen-
hagen and Brussels, and to the Imperial
Museum at Toxic.
Three copies go to St Petersburg to the
Imperial Library, the library of the winter
palace and that of the Berg Academic The
University of Warsaw Is also remembered
In addition to his jades Mr. Bishop pre-
sented TO the Metropolitan Museum several
other collections of great value Among
them are remarkable specimens of Japan
csc iron work, including dragon nine feet
long, as flexible a living reptile, and, by
way Of contrast, a skeleton of a man no
larger than the little finger, yet containing
a representation of every bone in the body
and every joint. The Holsters, fish and
other objects of the same material make
a COLLECTION that stands unrivaled in the
United States. There is also a great dis
play of cloisonne enamels, a large collec-
ton of carved worries, many of them old
and wrought with that artistic intricacy of
detail attained only by the orientals an ex-
tensive series of lacGuers, carved woods
porcelains and Chinese coins, and lastly. a
collection of hard stones other than ladeS