Word: palmyra
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...German art of its time. From Mr. Roger A. Derby, the museum has received an Italian painting of the Madonna with St. Catherine, attributed to Luini. Messrs. E. W. Forbes '95, Richard Norton '92, and Alden Sampson '76 have sent a limestone relief of ancient workmanship from Palmyra, and Mr. James Loeb '88 has given 48 casts of ancient marbles, bronzes and terra-cottas from the collection of the late Professor Furtwraengler of Berlin...
...University has also received, as a gift from Messrs. Edward W. Forbes '95, Richard Norton '92, and Alden Sampson '76, a Roman relief from Palmyra. These specimens will be placed in the Fogg Art Museum...
Since graduating from Harvard, Mr. Sampson has travelled extensively in the Rocky Mountains and in the Mediterranean countries, visiting Jerusalem and Damascus and crossing the desert to Palmyra. In 1903 as U. S. game preserve expert under the Biological Survey he made a tour of nearly 1300 miles, visiting forest reserves in California and Washington with the object of selecting certain areas where large game shall be protected. He has had an extended experience as a hunter in the West and Northwest and was until recently secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club...