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Active work has been done in all departments of the Museum during the year. Exploration in Central America has been successfully continued, and photographs, moulds, casts, and sculptures have been added to the collections. The series of moulds taken from the great Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan has been completed and a model of the ancient city is now in the Central American Hall of the Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found...
...expected that the room will seat 250 persons. To the left is another lecture room, 30 feet by 24 feet 6 inches, and adjoining it is a library of the same dimensions. The rear addition contains a small lecture room, 17 feet by 19 feet, opposite which is the stairway. The second floor has only two rooms; a large exhibition hall, 77 feet by 51 feet and the curator's room in the rear, 17 feet by 19 feet. The third floor is almost the same as the second; but the ceiling of the exhibition room has a raised skylight...
...shrine to Karl Marx still guards the stairway to the third floor, and urges "Workers of the world unite" in 14 different languages...
...collection of casts of inscriptions on the stone stairway leading up to the prehistoric temple at Copan, Honduras, has recently been put on exhibition at the Peabody Museum. The inscriptions are similar to those found in the Maya books and probably have a religious significance. The stairway is built of trachite, specimens of which have been in the Museum for some time, and in the debris of the ruins some elaborate statues have been found...
...that those from the Yard and from the outside may readily come together in the large meeting-room looking toward the west, or in the Assembly Hall above. To the east of the hall-way is a room to be used for occasional dinners, with a serving-room and stairway connecting with the small kitchen and other conveniences below. The remainder of the ground floor is to be devoted to the student volunteer work of the College. A memorial of Bishop Brooks and other memorial tablets are to form the simple decoration of the entrance hall...