1890-92 - University Archives and Records Center - University of ...

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save in boxes in the basement of the Library. You have agreed
to provide a site for the Museum. It remains for those who can
appreciate the educational value of the actual and tangible monuments
of archaeology and ethnology, grouped in great collections
and cared for by learned and zealous curators', to find the means
for the erection of such a building as may safely and worthily
enshrine them. It seemed desirable that the University should
be properly represented among American educational institutions
at the Columbian Exposition. In some respects this was a difficult
undertaking, for much of the work of the University is
incapable of visible representation. But out of the treasures of
bur Museum it was not difficult to select representative collections
which are not mere possessions, but the actual result of enterprises
here undertaken and accomplished, and these will form a
most attractive portion of the exhibit under the charge of
Mr. Mumford, the Assistant Secretary.
In conclusion, I beg to commend to your attention the
appendices to this report, which contain detailed information on
various matters I have only slightly touched upon, and especially
to the abstract of the annual reports of the Treasurer, and to the
grateful record there made of the money donations which the
University has received during the last three years.
WILLIAM PEPPER,
Provost.