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...Botanical Museum, in the University Museum building, a number of new Blaschka plat-models have been placed on exhibition for the first time. They are mounted on the new style of plaques and have been placed chiefly in the vestibule. A large number of economic specimens, recently received, are also on exhibition and are expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing...
...Louis H. Farlow, who for the last few winters has been collecting Indian trophies in the West, has lately presented to the Peabody Museum some valuable specimens, consisting for the most part of basket-ware obtained from the tribes in Alaska. British Columbia, and Southern California. The collection contains two specimen dancing skirts of an old tribe of Klamath Indians in Northwestern California. Both skirts are ornamented with black pinonnuts, and are woven with rawhide and grass. By far the most valuable of the specimens given by Mr. Farlow, is a very old Esquimo trinket-box about two feet long...
During the summer the only important changes at the University Museum have been made in the African room on the third floor. Here an unusually fine specimen of a giraffe, standing nearly seventeen feet in height, has been set up. For several years the Museum has been trying to acquire such a specimen. The animal was killed in the summer of 1902 in East Africa...
...important acquisition has been made recently by the Peabody Museum of a collection of Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...
...deals with a theme of which much has been heard. Perhaps one cannot hear too much; at any rate the present picture is no disgrace to its kindred. The number is strongest, however, in the minor contents, which are almost without exception good. Probably the best are the specimen lecture and the Faculty love letter...