Valentine's manual of old New York . researches were in progress innorthwestern South America, similar investigations wereconducted in Venezuela and the West Indies, almost everyisland inhabited in early times being visited for the pur-pose of locating and mapping sites of occupancy, and ofgathering collections. Excavations of equal, if not ofgreater, importance have been conducted also in manyparts of the United States, as well as in Central America,notably in British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, andCosta Rica, so that the collections in the Museum arealready adequately representative of nu
Valentine's manual of old New York . researches were in progress innorthwestern South America, similar investigations wereconducted in Venezuela and the West Indies, almost everyisland inhabited in early times being visited for the pur-pose of locating and mapping sites of occupancy, and ofgathering collections. Excavations of equal, if not ofgreater, importance have been conducted also in manyparts of the United States, as well as in Central America,notably in British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, andCosta Rica, so that the collections in the Museum arealready adequately representative of numerous Americanaboriginal culture areas. Notably among the collectionsfrom Costa Rica is one of several thousand specimens ofancient earthenware vessels presented by Mr. Minor In its work in Central America, as well as in Ven-ezuela, the Museum has had the fortunate cooperation ofthe president of those republics. In addition to the researches in Ecuador, Colombia,and Venezuela, archaeological work has been done also [ 336]. OF OLD NEW YORK in Peru and Chile, but thus far this has been of limitedextent. As time goes on, however, it is expected thatthe Museum will extend its operations in these as well asin other fields of scientific promise in South America, inorder that its collections may illustrate every distinctiveIndian culture throughout the Western Hemisphere. John Purroy Mitchell Death on the field of honor came to our young ex-Mayor a few short months after leaving his high officeas Chief Magistrate of New York. The following partialaccount of his funeral is taken from the New York Sun: Perhaps it were worth dying to gain in death suchhonor as New York paid yesterday to the body of JohnPurroy Mitchell, for his was probably the greatest funeralever given to an American citizen. Nothing is or ever can be so impressive as the perfectsilence of a great mass of human beings, for it is an ex-pression which sounds higher than the rolling of drumsor the crying of bugle
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