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Gifts of $37,467 to the Fogg Museum of Harvard University were announced today by Edward W. Forbes, Director, in his annual report. Accessions included nine small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century B.C., a sixth-century Coptic frieze, and sixteen Roman Egypto-Roman terra cotta fligurines and fragments of Persian pottery...
...Attic black-figured amphora, complete except for a fragment bearing the signature of Nicosthenes. This fragment belonged to the Fogg Museum. At the suggestion of Professor Capart, the Director of the Royal Museums, the Fogg Museum gave the fragment to Brussels and received in return nine very interesting small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century...
...Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...
Nine paintings by the Dutch water color school of the nineteenth century and a small collection of Greek terra cotta figurines were acquisitions made during the year which deserve special attention. There were also nine terra cotta heads of the first or second century B. C., from Asia Minor, acquired by exchange with the Royal Museums of Brussels...