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...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, and made a valuable collection illustrating Indian arts and customs, and also secured a large collection of photographs of Indians. Mr. E. H. Thompson completed explorations of the ruins of Chacmultum, an ancient city in Yucatan, from which he sent photographs, moulds of stellae and copies of mural paintings. Mr. Teobert...
Beside this collection, an interesting set of articles of dress and about five hundred photographs have been brought from the highlands of Guatemala by Mr. Gordon of the Museum. In past years he has been engaged in excavations in the ruined cities of Guatemala, Quirigua and San Augustin, and Copan in Honduras, and during the past winter he has been living in the highlands, among the remnants of the Maya race, the founders of these cities, in order to discover traditions in regard to the history of the cities and the reason they were deserted. These attempts have been without...
...Gordon, who was sent in November by the Peabody Museum to explore the ruined cities of Central America, has just returned. He spent two months in Honduras and three months in Guatemala. The principal part of his work was the exploration of the ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala, the most important ruined city of the ancient Maya civilization. It is buried in a dense tropical jungle through which roads had to be cut to reach the site. The most remarkable of the relics are the stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations...
Another consignment of pottery was received from Guatemala which an old priest excavated from the ruins of the old town of Quiche. The incise work of this pottery is especially fine. A large collection of skeletons and pottery has also been received from Madisonville, Ohio...
...operation. In addition to buildings, a botanic garden, terrestrial and aquatic, has been established which has proved of great value in making practical demonstrations of plant life. Explorations under the direction of the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology have been made in South America, Florida, Yucatan, Babylonia, Honduras, Corea, Guatemala and Egypt, and a university museum to cost $300,000 is under...