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IWetti'iirrk Wxibmu. NEW RRLICS AND FOSSILS. ACCKSSION.s TO THE NATURAL. HISTORY MUSEUM. INOIAN HANDIWORK.

ANCIENT AND Til NATIVE AMERICAN HORSE AND RHINOCEROS, DINOSAURS AND OTHRR TERTIARY MAM MA I Valuable additions are made every year to the material exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History, but visitors there this fall will note great advances upon the past- The progress thus made will be emphasized on Tuesday by a reception at this magnificent institution held by it. president and patron, Morris K. Jesup. On that occasion the new lecture hall, mating 1.35© persons, and equipped with the most modern apparatus for displaying lantern slides, will be used for the first time. Professor Hickmore, whose lectures to scientists, leathers and (hi general public form so useful a part of the educational work of the Museum, will show a number of pictures of the Paris Exposition of I'JOO.

The department of ethnology and archaeology will open an entirely new hall in the west wing and exhibit much new material in other halls. Professor V. W. Putnam, curator of this department, had hoped that the public might also be admitted to the hall of Peruvian and other South American antiquities, but his prepa- rations not yet complete, and the event must therefore be deferred for the present. Some remarkable novelties in fossils will be eh- wn by the department of vertebrate paleontology, and accessions if minor importance to other divisions of the Museum will also be It will thus be seen that the occasion is to be one of exceptional interest.

A unique feature of the Museum work for the last three or four years is the Investigation, through munificence of Mr Jesup. of the relations between the aborigines of America and the Asiatic ruoea. This in juirv has been conducted along 'he North Pacific Coast of this continent, md has extended into Northeastern Asia. Much 'i the material collected by the numerous of the Jesup expedition is now assembled in the north hall. Here may be found a series of cases designed to show, first, certain fundamental traits of the North Pacific Const culture, and, second, the characteristics of separate localities included Southern Alaska, four five districts in British Columbia and State of Washington.

Thus a critical comparison of legrees if skill and the nature of popular usages is made possible. Not only are utensils, weapons, conveyances, costumes and ornaments displayed, but also groups of figures Illustrating the industrial and domestic, pursuits of the people represented. The north hall, in addition to these objects, contains many others with which visitors are already familiar On entente the west hall one crosses in II FRONT OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SOLI imagination the mountains that divide the coast region from the interior of the continent. On the right hind the visitor encounters costumes and other products of the art of the Esquimaux of Greenland and Hudson's Bay. At the left is shown a large and striking collection of weapons, utensils and ornaments obtained among the Arapahoos.

Adjacent thereto are smaller representations of the civilization of Southern tribes, the Apacheo and Navajos. On this side of the hall, too, will be found a fine lot of baskets trade by the Maidu Indians, of California. baskets were presented to the Museum by the late C. P. Huntington.

The west hall also contains a few articles brought from the Amoor River by Dr. who went out under Mr. Jt-sup's auspices, a group of figures showing native African smiths at work, a case of re- FOSSIL SKELETON OF AN AMERICAN RHINOCEROS One of the new exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History. markably fine iron work executed by Africans, specimens of Pueblo pottery, the Lumholtz collection of Mexican Indian material (not new) and a number of articles from New-Guinea and other islands skirting the Southwestern Pacific. Eventually some of these things will go elsewhere to accommodate additions to the American Indian and Esquimau exhibits.

In the northeast corner of the Museum then; is a temporary exhibition of articles presented by missionaries in Asia at the time of the Ecumenical Council last spring. These are mostly from Japan, China and India. Dr. Franz Boas, who lias been charged with the arrangement of all of this ethnological material, is engaged in preparing a collection of skulls, plaster ousts arrJ photographs, to illustrate the different types the humar race. Tin- Mexican Hall, opened last year, has been enriched bj the addition of a hundred casts of Maya and Nahuatl monuments.

Here, too, is shown for the fust time the reproduction of the Codex Vaticanus for which the Duke of Loubat generously made provision. This is an astronomical, astrological and historical work of rare value. The original text is pictorial. The interpretation of it, written legibly in Italian, is given below the colored pictures on each page. In this hall are also Bhown a reproduction of mythological frescoes from Teotihuican (one of the most ancient and highly cultured cities of Mexico) and three cases of antiquities from Porto Rico, including idols and a pre-Columbian WoodtU btuyl.

ILLUSTRATED SUPPLE (VitiNT. SI NDAY, OCTOBER 28, 11)00. The archaeological work now or recently In progress under Professor Putnam's direction may be summarized as follows: The glacial deposits of the Delaware Valley are being examined by Ernest Vulk through the generosity of Dr. F. E.

Hyde. The hunt for Indian antiquities in the vicinity of thi metropolis has been continued during the summer with interesting results. Raymond Harrington, who Is In charge of the work, is now engaged in cataloguing the specimens preparatory to their bein? exhibited. Several Indian sites were discovered this year, and it is desirable that the inquiry be continued. Unfortunately, the Museum has no money available for it at present.

Under the patronage of Talbot B. Hyde and F. E. Hyde, Dr. Hrdlicka has made a thorough study of the cranial and other physical characteristics of the Indians of New-Mexico and Arizona.

Professors Putnam and Dodge, with the assistance of Richard Wetherlll, haw located and photographed a number of ancient ruins, making ial researches in connection with the antii ty of these ancient dwelling places. Professors Putnam and in connection with this expedition, have also visited Calaveras County, the locality of the famous Calaveras skull, and have secured considerable material for further study. Under the patronage of the Duke of Loubat archaeological researches in Mexico are to continued by Mr. Saville, working under a special agreement made with the Mexican Government. No less than six parties have been or are still engaged in prosecuting the investigations provided for by Mr.

Jesup. Professor Franz Boas was in Vancouvei Island from May until October; James Teit went to Northern British Columbia in June, ami will return nexl month; John R. Swanlon weni Queen Charlotte I--I ands in August, and is to return nexl year; Dr. Livingston Farrand went to the Washington in September; George Hunt the coast Dt British Columbia ai the same time, ami is not expected home until winter, and w.il demar Bogoras and Waldemai Jochels in Siberia, the former exploring the Chuckchee peninsula and the latter the region north of the Okhotsk Sea. Prior to his departure to Washington Dr.

Farrand conducted an itigation of the Oregon Coast Range Indians, i which provision had been made by Mr. Villard. A. Kroeber was among the tribes of Utah and Wyoming from June to September, through Jfcsup generosity, and Mr. Kro and Roland B.

Dlxon are in the Western foothills of the Sierras, California, under the auspices the lute C. P. Huntington. A great many One fossils never before have been added to Tertiary- Mammal Hall, in the department of vertebrate paleontology. None of them la more unique and valuable than the skeleton of the native American horse, what Is regarded the latest stage of the development of the race on this continent This ttsiimal doubtless traced his pedigree back to the four-toed horse of the Kocene period.

The specimen shown at the Museum of Natural History comes from the Staked Plains of Texas, win re J. Gidley found it associated with four others hist year Although they had attained their full six it is apparent from the teeth that th were comparatively yi tins animals. best of the dye skel tons was incomplete, and the missing portions ii ay been supplied fro th .1 other specimens. The skeleton has been i I mirably mounted, now constitutes of the most striking aril significant exhibits ti the Tertiary Mamm il Hall. It is the only one of its kind to found in any museum of ihe world.

This species, which, out of compliment to Professor W. It Scott, Princeton, has 1 named I'quus differs from the mo crn horse (Equus Ca balluu) in importarf particulars. Its bea4 is as big as that of a heavy draught horse, hut the body no larger than hit a. zebra or quagga the neck is shorter and the body longei than those of the Caballus, It appears from tin- teeth that the ancient had better masticating apparatus than thi modern, and was better adapted to grazing. mil structural differences which have been noted lead Professor Osborn to say that the race of whi '1 this skeleton marks the culmination could not have been ancestral to dern hors Thus is effectually set at rest an interesting question in genealogy.

The tu.s.sil skeleton of an American rhinoci ros shown this hall is a restoration by Charles Knight, whose irk is known in all the leading museums in Europe. Indeed, copies of this particular mi. been supplied a number of foreign nstitutions The rhinoceros, h. restoration the museum is indebted to J. Pierponl Morgan, is singulai limbed In this el the A mci hout a parall 1 among the rhinocero of Europe ti iis flesh and hide were on thia arly sw epl Ihe gi tund.

ble teal i iry Mammal Hall Is a i ase eontaii i i ang minials I hai the ft el uy period In quailed tne ol those daya. ancea made them unlike all other three-toed ungulates These remarkable are ailed ITintat o( Professor Oisburn's sreateat.