430 EXPEDITIONS REPRESENTED IN PEABODY MUSEUM EXHIBITS

How upon row of polished skeletons glare down at the visitor to the Peabody Museum, south branch of the University Museum, where the Anthropology Department keeps the prehistoric fruits of a century and a half of study in the past.

Peabody was founded in 1866 by George Peabody, working with the trustees of the University. The first building were constructed in 1877, and exhibits were entered in that year. Other buildings were erected in 1888 and 1915. In 1897 the Museum was turned over to the University.

Since 1877 the Peabody Museum has sent out over 430 expeditions to all the continents of the earth. Most of the pre-historic material in today's museum was unearthed in this manner, and the explorers of Peabody's have made the collection on pre-history in America one of the finest in the world.

Anthropological Headquarters

The offices of the Anthropology Department are in Peabody, and the Museum also holds a Statistical Laboratory, an Osteological Laboratory, a Students' Laboratory, and a lecture room. The fifth floor of the building has been turned over is the Geology Department.

The Museum is principally interested in primitive human culture and physical anthropology, and its exhibits may be generally classed under the headings Ethnology, Archaeology, and Linguistics.