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...several rooms on the ground floor are nearly finished. The plumbing is ready for use with the exception of a few alterations to be made in the basement. The painters expect to complete their work today. The least advanced part of the building is the entrance hall, where the plaster casts are. It will be at least a week before the casts that line the east side of the hall will be finished; and the pieces for the northwest corner have not yet been begun. The building will be ready for use about the last of December...
...model, a solid piece of plaster thirty feet in circumference, is the largest of the kind yet produced in this country and by far the most accurate. The area represented is nearly five hundred square miles, embracing the territory within a radius of twelve miles from Boston...
...stone monoliths covered with inscriptions and weighing from fifteen to sixty tons. During his investigations at Quirigua Mr. Gordon discovered two new monoliths, each about twenty-five tons in weight. Thirteen monoliths in all have been found. Moulds of these have been made and exact reproductions in plaster will be placed in the Peabody Museum. Besides the explorations at Quirigua, other trips were made into more remote parts of the country and several groups of ruins, as yet unexplored, were found. As the Guatemalan Government has granted permission to make further explorations, the Museum hopes soon to investigate these newly...
...twelve of the glass models have been remounted, and there is a marked improvement in the effect produced when they are compared with the models of the flowers as they come from Germany, mounted on cardboard. The whole work onremounting is carefully done, in the Museum itself. After the plaster for a mount is cast, minute holes are bored in it, where necessary, and then the model is secured in place by fine silver wire. All the fastening of the ends of wire is done at the back of the cast, and at a slight distance there is nothing...
About twenty new models have been received at various times throughout this college year, and as they have come in, they have been put in their proper places in the arrangement of the series, awaiting Professor Goodale's return, before they can be remounted on plaster...