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THERE is marked activity in all scientific pursuits in arid about Harvard University. The Agassiz Museum has at last had its management fully turned over to the University, the transfer being effected by permission from the State Legislature. At present the estimated worth of the property is $322,000; the land and buildings being valued at $100,000, and the collections at $60,000; the rest being trust funds. By the transfer. Harvard will have the use of the collections for educational purposes, and the Peabody Museum of Archæology will erect an edifice connected in plan with the Agassiz Museum. The Peabody trust provider for a Professorship of Anthropology, as well as for collections and a building. The Agassiz Museum is arranged so as to display types of the whole animal kingdom in their natural classification. Great facilities are already furnished to students and specialists, and these facilities will now be further increased. The force employed in the Museum is sufficient not only for the care of the specimens, but also to aid in new research.
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Science at Cambridge, Mass . Nature 15, 432 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015432a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015432a0