Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual report of the Semitic Museum by the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, commences with a summary of the addresses delivered at the opening of the Museum last February...
...report enumerates important acquisitions of the year, among which have been an original Assyrian inscription from King Assurnazirkal (9th century B. C.) on an elaborate slab about three feet square, and three models made at Jerusalem by Dr. Schick, a German archaeologist, who lived and studied in that city for fifty years. The model of chief value is one of Haramesh-Sherif, nine feet by eleven, and is an exact representation of the mosques and other buildings occupying the site of Solomon's Temple and Palace. The second model, of the same size, is a restoration of the Temple...
...conclusion of his report, Professor Lyon calls attention to the importance of original research work in Palestine, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia and Egypt, now being carried on by several European and American universities. He writes: "It will be a happy day for the University and for the Museum when some friend or friends shall make it possible for us to have a share in this most fascinating and most important work of recovering and of publishing the records of those great peoples whose ideas constitute such an important element in our own civilization...
...director of the University Museum, in his annual report to the President, records a very valuable gift of insects and fossil insects presented by Mr. S. H. Scudder '62; a gift of a collection of reptiles and Bermudan fishes from T. Barbour '06, and the presentation by H. B. Bigelow 2G., of the collection of over 8,000 North American and West Indian birds, which have been loaned to the Museum for the last three years. A gift of a different character is an early oil portrait of Professor Louis Agassiz h.'48, presented by Captain C. H. Davis...
...report contains, as usual, detailed accounts of the work in all the departments of the Museum...