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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most important collection received by the Museum this year is from Mr. Thomas Barbour '06 and consists of objects and utensils from New Dutch Guinea, a region hitherto unrepresented. Mr. Lewis H. Farlow, who has given many specimens during the last six years, has contributed relies of the Pacific Coast Indians. Among other additions are those made by Dr. L. C. Jones and Mr. C. B. Moore '73. The collection of photographs has been enriched by the addition of over 130 prints. The funds of the institution have been used for expeditions as well as for purchase...
...Surgeons, and was for a time associated with Sir Frederick Treves, King Edward's surgeon. For 18 years he has been engaged in medical and philanthropic work in Labrador and has bettered the educational and economic situation there by establishing schools and co-operative stores. He cruises the coast of Labrador in summer in his hospital ship and in winter covers the distance from settlement to settlement by dog-teams, caring for the sick and needy fishermen who comprise most of the population of this region. On one of these trips he made the first authentic chart of the Labrador...
...Wilfred T. Grenfell, C.M.G., will give an illustrated lectures on "Labrador Life" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. With his four hospitals and his steel hospital ship, the "Strathcona," in which he cruises up and down the Labrador coast, Dr. Grenfell has been of great help to the people of this desolate region. At present he is endeavoring to introduce reindeer into the Labrador country to serve the people as domestic animals...
...objects were obtained for the most part along the northern coast of Dutch New Guinea from the western extremity of Humboldt's Bay, and are extremely valuable in illustrating the life of the natives. The collection consists of spears, bows, arrows, shields, household and cooking utensils--many beautifully carved and painted--objects of dress and personal adornment in great variety, figure-heads of canoes, drums and other instruments used in the war dances, mats, and household gods and images...
...greater length with tents. These were to the southern end of the Dead Sea in company with the Dominican School of Jerusalem; to Beersheba and the country of the Philistines; across the Jordan and to Banias, one of the sources of that river, thence to Sidon and down the coast to Haifa, thence over Mt. Carmel to Nablus where the celebration of the Samaritan Passover was witnessed...