Antiquities In A Garret

How Long Forgotten Gifts to Yale Were Brought to Light. 

While moving boxes in the garret of Peabody museum at Yale Dr. George Grant McCurdy, curator of the anthropological collections of the museum, recently discovered a large box which was entirely unknown to the catalogue of the museum, says a New Haven (Conn.) special to the Philadelphia Press. 

On opening the box it was found to contain a collection of Flathead Indian skulls collected by the late Professor O.C. Marsh. As the box was being opened a smaller box was discovered on which was inscribed the date "January, 1858," with a memorandum stating that the box contained Egyptian antiquities and had been presenting to the museum by the Rev. Lyman Coleman, Yale, 1817.

It was found to contain the mummies of a child, of some small animal, a mummified left hand of a woman and some other pieces which have not yet been identified. They will be restored at once and places in the museum.