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 492 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Mr. Quibell, one of Professor's Petrie's assistants of El Kab. From these exca- vations there came to the Museum a magnificent series of alabaster and diorite vessels of great value, together with some jewelry, especially necklaces of amethyst, garnet, and carnelian. Very effectively aided by the Philosophy and Science Department of the Chicago Woman's Club, the present Director organized the Chicago Society of Egyptian Research. The subscriptions of the members of this Society were sent as financial support of the excavations of Professor Petrie and the Egyptian Exploration Fund. From the excava- tions thus supported, the bulk of the present collections of Egyptian materials now in Haskell Museum has come. The Egyptian Exploration Fund presented to the Museum its unique collection of over 2,200 oriental weights, the largest of such collections in existence. The gift of $50,000 by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, for exploration and excava- tion by the University of Chicago, enabled the University to carry on excava- tions at Bismya, in lower Babylonia; and from these excavations some valuable original monuments have accrued to the Museum. The same funds enabled the University also to carry on an exploration and survey of the ancient monu- ments of Nubia, or Ethiopia, from which some original monuments were obtained for the Museum. Mr. Martin A. Ryerson presented to the Museum a series of six valuable East Indian paintings, as a beginning of the collection on far-eastern art; and Mr. Jacob Speicher has also presented a carefully selected and arranged col- lection of i, 068 Chinese coins illustrating the development of coinage from the earliest days in China almost down to the present. OTHER COLLECTIONS The Museum in the Classics Building contains: The Stanley McCormick Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus, belonging to the School of Education. Miscellaneous Greek and Roman Antiquities pottery, terra cottas, small bronzes, etc., mostly given by E. P. Warren, Esq., of Lewes, England. Reproductions in color and in black and white of pictures by old masters. In the Harper Memorial Library are: The Mannheimer collection of coins, ranging from the early types of coinage in Greece to recent times, presented by estate of Augusta Mannheimer in the name of Michael and Augusta Mannheimer. The Erskine M. Phelps coectllion of Napoleonana, consisting of books, pictures, busts, decorations, medallions, etc. It was presented by Mrs. Erskine M. Phelps of Chicago, in memory of her husband who collected it. The Frank W. Gunsaulus collection of Japanese sword furniture, presented by Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus of Chicago, is also installed in this Museum. There are also some collections in the Department of Anthropology.