Word: directors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the University Museum left Boston yesterday for Florida where he will join A. V. Armour, for an extensive cruise, which will include many Harvard biological and botanical foundations in southern latitudes. The trip will be made on the Armour yacht "Utowana...
...felt obliged to report to the President further that in my opinion he would have no chance of acquiring a permanent Director by calling an anthropologist of position from another institution, unless the Museum had first been modernized and placed in efficient condition...
...following article is based on a survey of the Peabody Museum published in the current Alumni Bulletin, written by Edward Reynolds '81 M.D. '85, director of the Museum...
...much praise can hardly be given to the curatorship of the last Director, who left the collection in what may be described as perfect physical condition. The Museum is remarkably free from dirt or insect pests. The latter, which are a perpetual menace to museum collections, are entirely absent, and have been long unknown here. There has been no deterioration of specimens--all of which can very rarely be said of a past management when a new Director takes office...
...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...