Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forty-first annual report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology issued by Professor F. W. Putnam '62, speaks briefly of the work and importance of the Museum, and once more appeals for more room in which to store the constantly growing treasure resulting from gifts and explorations. The completion of the south wing of the University Museum would fill out the original design of Professor Agassiz, and would be particularly appropriate now, this year being the 100th anniversary of his birth...
...generosity of Mr. Augustus Hemenway '75, a new case has been recently installed, which relieves the congestion of the halls, and provides room for part of the North American collection. The arrangement was further amplified by the substitution of more important objects recently in storage, for those of less importance to the exhibit. In the anthropological section, the divisions have been systematized for the convenience of comparative racial study...
...South American Expedition which left last year under the leadership of Dr. W. C. Farrabee to study Peruvian ethnological remains, is nearly ended, and Dr. Farrabee is expected in Cambridge some time this spring. Mr. Teobert Maler and Mr. E. H. Thompson have continued their research work in Yucatan with considerable success...
...closing his report Professor Putnam speaks of the newly established Fellowship in Central American Research and sums up the official appointments in the department of Archacology and Ethnology...
...demonstration was under the management of the Hughes Club. Governor Hughes came to Boston yesterday afternoon, and besides the short speech to Harvard men, he addressed the New England Dry Goods Association in Tremont Temple, and the Brown University Alumni Association at the American House in the evening, leaving for Albany about midnight...