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...Elwell is one of the leading American sculptors. His work exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, and at the Pan American, Buffalo, 1901, attracted wide public attention. He has twice been awarded a gold medal by the Philadelphia Art Club, and received a silver medal from Leopold II of Belgium. He is an honorary member of the Cincinnati Art Club and of the Dickens Fellowship, and was curator for several years of the Department of Ancient and Modern Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City...
...Essex Institute and director of the Peabody Academy of Science until 1874. The following year he became curator of the Peabody Museum. In 1886 he received the appointment to the Peabody professorship. He has also held the positions of chief of the department of ethnology at the World's Columbian Exposition and the curatorship of the division of Anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. His publications on zoology and anthropology number over 300. Since 1870 he has been engaged in research work and explorations in American archeology...
...Robins is a graduate of the law department of Columbian University, Washington, and for two years, after his graduation practiced law in San Francisco. Since 1904 he has been a lecturer in sociology in the University of Chicago. He is connected with a number of charitable and social service organizations and has given the following addresses, which have been published: "What Constitutes a Model Municipal Lodging House," "Side Lights on Graft and Grafters," and "Homeless Men an Industrial Product...
These ruins have excited great interest from being the most remarkable architectural remains of pre-Columbian time in America. In recent years Dr. Tozzer, as well as other archeologists, has given much time to exploration and study of the ruins, and of the state of civilization they record. The Peabody Museum possesses large collections from Yucatan, and many models or the ruins found there as well as numerous photographs will be shown by Dr. Tozzer. The present inhabitants of Yucatan, the Lacondones, a tribe which Dr. Tozzer has studied with particular care, have sadly deteriorated since they produced such wonderful...
...American Indian," by Dr. Clark Wisler, of Columbia; November 16, "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India," by Dr. J. H. Woods '87, instructor of Indic Philology; December 2. "The Characteristics of Primitive Culture," by Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia, and head of the Field Columbian Expedition; December 7, "The Maya Hieroglyphs," by Mr. C. P. Bowditch...