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During the summer the Peabody Museum has received several very impor tant additions to its collections, especially to the collections of pottery. One of the largest of these groups is the Gordon collection of pottery from the banks of the Ulua River in Honduras. This comprises broken bits of colored...
Another consignment of pottery was received from Guatemala which an old priest excavated from the ruins of the old town of Quiche. The incise work of this pottery is especially fine. A large collection of skeletons and pottery has also been received from Madisonville, Ohio.
All the necessary preparations for receiving the Gray collection of engravings are being made in the upper room of the Fogg Art Museum. The new cases, which have been made of quartered oak and lined with Spanish cedar, now await the engravings.
This valuable collection, which is now to be permanently settled in the Fogg Art Museum, was loaned by Harvard College to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts over twenty-one years ago. It comprises the original engravings by some of the great German and Italian artists, the most important being...
Besides these engravings, a large number of photographs have been received from the German School and the German Institute of Athens, for the reproducing of Greek Sculpture. A collection from India representing the life and customs of that country has also been received this summer. An important addition to the...