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...establishment of the Museum, made in 1866, was in three parts; a grant of $60,000 for a building, $45,000 for the purchasing needs of the institution, and a $45,000 endowment for the Peabody Professorship of Archaeology and Ethnology, a post now held by John Otis Brew, Director of the Museum and newly elected President of the American Anthropological Association...
...director Brew points out, the Museum's collections and exhibits must be prepared primarily for the use of the student of anthropology and the scholar engaged in serious research. In this sense, the Museum's role as a showplace for the general public is distinctly secondary one. As a centre for teaching and scholarship, Peabody's first obligation must always be to the University...
Perhaps the most noteworthy of Peabody's functions is its sponsorship of anthropological field expeditions. Director Brew estimates that the Museum has participated in between 600 and 700 such expeditions in the course of its 87-year history. Peabody expeditions are financed largely independently of the Museum's regular University budget--foundations usually provide part of the support but much of the financial backing is based upon outside grants from interested private citizens...
...American girl named Inez Pokorny, who was hunting gold and was stranded in Iquitos, too. Their quest almost ended prematurely one night when Clark was bitten by a poisonous snake, a nacanaca, and was only saved because his Indian paddlers went promptly to work with the native treatment: a brew of herbs injected near the wound by repeated jabs of a thorn...
Last week Kentucky's Senator Earle Clements wired the White House demanding that the Army relieve Horse Cave of its "mortal danger." He was refused. That left Horse Cave just where it started: fearfully waiting for the rain which might release a surge of the witch's brew...