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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual report of the Fogg Art Museum, issued by the director, Professor Charles H. Moore, shows that there have been a number of important accessions to the museum, during the past year. From the class of 1895 the museum has received a valuable marble statue, which is an original work of high character representing later Greek sculpture. It appears to be an Aphrodite and closely resembles the so-called Venus de Milo, though it is on a smaller scale. The head, right arm, left forearm and feet are missing, but in other respects the figure is in remarkably good condition...
Professor Sanger has just finished an investigation of fire-proofing processes which he has been carrying on for the past year in behalf of the United States Navy Department...
...usual courses have been given at the Museum during the past year. The library has been enlarged and several improvements have been made in the classification and exhibition of the collections...
...annual report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, prepared by the Curator, Professor F. W. 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...
...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...