Acquisitions to Various Museums

The various museums of the University have made several acquisitions of recent date.

Valuable Addition to Fogg Museum.

The University has recently received an exceedingly valuable legacy from the will of the late G. W. Harris of Boston in the shape of a diptych, representing a bishop in full pontifical robes in adoration before the Madonna and Child. This picture was painted by Rogier van der Weyden, a Flemish painter of the 15th century, and is a thoroughly characteristic and very beautiful example of the works of this early master. It will be placed in the Fogg Art Museum as soon as it can be properly and safely mounted.

Gifts to the Classical Museum.

The Alpha Delta Phi Society has recently presented to the Classical Museum a chariot, which was used at the Greek Play last June. Professor A. A. Howard '82 gave an ancient Greek strigil from Aegina and a bit of mosaic from the vase of Chalydon. A collection of native terra cottas from the neighborhood of Rome was received from Dr. A. S. Pease, and several specimens of Roman building stone were given by the Mineralogical museum. Mr. George S. Pfeiffer donated a number of photographic negatives.

Additions to Botanical Museum.

A number of specimens of U. S. government standard teas, together with illustrations of the plant and descriptions of the process of tea-making, have recently been acquired by the Botanical Museum. An interesting collection of pre-historic grains, with several specimens of fruits and bread, which were completely charred in the conflagrations by which the lake dwellings of the stone and bronze ages were destroyed, are also on exhibition. Seventy illustrations of a few wild flowers from the eastern United States, painted by Mrs. C. D. Murdoch, and specimens of "Silver Sword" collected from the brink of the volcano Holeakala, Mani, Hawaiian Islands, have also been acquired.