Peabody Museum.

The Peabody Museum has just received, through the kindness of Mr. E. G. Squier, two original drawings in sepia of two old idols or images now standing among the ruins in Copan, Central America.

They are originals of plates one and two of Frederick Catherwood's folio publication on the ancient monuments of Central America, published in London in 1844, and were made by him from his sketches of the ruins of Copan in 1839. The casts of these idols are now on exhibition in the Museum.

The pictures are not only of scientific accuracy but of great historic and artistic value, and the Museum is fortunate in being the recipient of two of the pictures of such a famous artist.