Museum Report

DURING THE COLLEGE year of 1947-48, approximately 14,000 persons visited the College Museum, according to the annual Museum report recently released by Prof. W. Wedgewood Bowen, director.

During this period the College Museum received 61 accessions comprising 1300 specimens including seven terracotta figurines from the Valley of Mexico (800-1300 A.D.) from the estate of the late Prof. Hermen Feldman; a collection of 181 study specimens of Vermont mammals made by the late Duane E. Kent of Rutland and presented by his daughter, Mrs. Sanford Witherell of Shoreham, Vt.; two authentic Shaker costumes from the old Enfield Shaker Village, a gift of Paul St. Gaudens of Plainfield, N. H.; a collection of 53 pearls to supplement a previous gift of Jack J. Felsenfeld of New York City; and a collection of 50 study skins of Arctic birds made especially for the College Museum by Martin B. Person Jr. '51 of Windsor, Vt. while on the MacMillan expedition last summer.

The addition of the gift by Mrs. Witherell to an already extensive mammal collection gives the College Museum probably the most complete exhibit of this type in northern New England.