Volume XII / Number 1
In the summer of 1919 the Director discovered in a book shop in London a very rare book described by Mr. Hall in this JOURNAL. The Library of the Museum was fortunate enough to acquire this treasure through an appropriation from the funds of the George Leib Harrison Foundation. The book is a curiosity in […]
By: Henry Usher Hall
Volume XII / Number 1
In the year 1787 there was published in London an interesting and curious book styled a CATALOGUE and illustrated with samples cut from specimens of the tapa or bark cloth collected by Cook and his companions during the great explorer’s three voyages. The title page and the quaint dedication are reproduced here from a copy […]
By: Clarence S. Fisher
Volume XII / Number 1
In the JOURNAL for December, 1917, a summary was given of the excavations in the palace of Merenptah at Memphis, being conducted by the Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition of the Museum. A brief description was also given of the probable appearance of the building before its destruction. It has now been possible to make […]
By: William Curtis Farabee
Volume XII / Number 1
As long as prehistoric man was held down to the use of bone and stone implements he could make very little progress in civilization and culture, but with the discovery and use of metals his advancement became rapid and continuous. The first period may be measured in tens of thousands of years while the second […]
By: William Curtis Farabee
Volume XII / Number 1
The fine collection of prehistoric American Indian gold objects from Ecuador in the University Museum was found in 1912 by Sr. Pablo Isaias Sanches in the edge of an artificial mound on the island of Tola at the mouth of the Santiago River in the province of Esmeraldas. The island is low lying and swampy, […]
By: George Byron Gordon
Volume XII / Number 1
In the Central American collections in the Museum is a group of marble vases from the Ulua Valley in Honduras that are so unusual and of a type so distinct as to cause a good deal of curiosity among scholars and among people generally who are interested in the native arts and native customs of […]
By: Leon Legrain
Volume XII / Number 1
THE DYNASTY OF AGADE. At a few months interval, our material for reconstructing the early Sumerian chronology has been increased by the recovery of a small fragment. It belongs to the tablet published in the last number of the MUSEUM JOURNAL. It is indeed the lower part of cols. 7 and 8, which gives us […]
Volume XII / Number 1
GIFTS. The following gifts have been received. Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson, two Chinese sculptured horses of the Emperor Tang Tai Tsung, 7th Century A. D. Mrs. George S. Robbins and Miss M. R. Coles in the name of Miss Mary Coles, a miscellaneous collection of ancient coins, Egyptian amulets and ethnological specimens. Mr. John Cadwalader, […]