Gift of Emperor William.

An examination of the portfolio handed to President Eliot by Prince Henry of Prussia, shows that the gift of the German Emperor to the Germanic Museum will consist of a number of reproductions of German Sculpture, dating from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. The earliest works represented are the famous bronze doors of the cathedral at Hildesheim made in about 1015. The most modern piece is the marble statue of Frederick the Great, made by Gottfried Schadow at Stettin. The works vary in size from the masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin, to the entire Golden Gate of the cathedral at Freiberg, which is a famous model of portal sculpture belonging to the first half of the thirteenth century. Among the most interesting of the other objects, are the nine statues, of heroic size, of the founders of the cathedral at Naumburg; and the tomb of St. Sebaldus, the most famous work of Peter Fischer, the Nuremberg worker in bronze. The work best known to the public is probably the colossal bronze statue of the Great Elector, at Berlin.

It is already quite evident that the old gymnasium cannot be used for the proper housing and exhibition of these gifts, and efforts will be made as soon as possible to provide a suitable building for them.