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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Forum--"What Shall We Do With the Philippines?" J. H. Parker '93; "The Sinking Fund and the Public Debt," H. S. Boutell...
Gifts of money during the year amounted to $15,400, the largest of which--$10,000--was received under the will of the late Governor Roger Wolcott '70, to be added to a previous gift of the same amount establishing the J. Huntington Wolcott Fund for "the purchase of books of permanent value, the preference being given to works of history, political economy, and sociology...
...Putnam, shows that the past year has been an active one for the Museum. The most valuable part of its work has been the Archaeological researches which have been conducted in various parts of America. The most important of these researches have been made possible by the "Fund for the Encouragement of Mexican and Central American Research." This fund, maintained by yearly contributions, has enabled the Museum to carry on researches in Yucatan and Mexico for twelve years, and last year by means of it the Museum continued the work of several explorers. Mr. Gordon conducted researches in Guatemala...
...addition to these expeditions the fund has furnished the means for publishing a series of quarto memoirs, thus making known some of the important results of the several expeditions. The latest of these memoirs has just been issued under the title "Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley," by Mr. Teobert Maler. This work gives a full and interesting description of Mr. Maler's work for the past year, including his visit to the little-known Lacandon Indians of Lake Petha...
...means of this fund the Museum has also published Mrs. Nuttall's work on "The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilization." The work is based upon long study of the religious, sociological and calendric systems of the ancient Mexicans, and shows undeniable identities between the civilizations of both hemispheres. It also contains valuable material for a comparative study of religious symbolism...