The M. C. Long collection, representing the stone age of America; containing some of the finest specimens of stone implements in the West.

The Sidney J. Hare collection of fossils, containing rare geological specimens, including type crinoids found in Kansas City of which duplications are unknown.

The Mrs. Hal Gaylord collection containing oriental costumes, Indian relics, utensils and implements from Borneo and Sumatra, with fine specimens of Pueblo pottery and Pima basket work.

The Esquimo collection of Walter Davis, consisting of domestic utensils and implements of warfare from Alaska and the North-west.

The W. H. Winants collection of historic American and foreign medals.

The Mrs. Clarke Salmon collection of exquisite oriental relics, rare and beautiful tapestry and ceramic specimens of great interest.

Other collections are a very fine lot of mineral fossils and crystals by Otto Hatry; a number of shells, minerals and agates, by William Askew; Birds eggs by E. P. Holbert; Crimean war relics by William A. Roxby; Civil war relics by Dr. Willis P. King.

Also the famous Daniel B. Dyer collection, accumulated by him during a residence of fifteen years with the Indians, including the Lava Bed Modocs, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe, and since that time other objects of interest have been secured from all over the world, for in making his collections Mr. Dyer has not confined his researches to the limits of Indian reservations, but has enlarged his kingdom to the far corners of the earth. Hence there are found in this collection many most curious objects of great interest, from the isolated islands of the sea and from explorations in Old Mexico and South America, from the wilds of Africa, and Alaska, from China, Japan and from Turkey.

There are also ancient fire arms hundreds of years old, arms from the Revolutionary, Civil, and Spanish-American wars, creating in the aggregate 15,000 objects, the largest and most interesting private collection ever gathered, including specimens in Anthropology, Archaeology and natural history, with many rare specimens for scientific study. Representing all phases of the life of aboriginal Indians, including various historic relics such as a silver Peace Pipe, presented by General Harrison on behalf of the United States to the Shawnee Indians in 1814, and a silver medal with the inscription George Washington, President 1795.

A few of the most valuable objects are an Elk tooth dress decorated with fifteen hundred eye teeth of the Elk, representing the slaughter of 750 Elk; and a scalp shirt decorated with 750 human scalps; the war trap

pings of Yellow Bear, the right-hand man of the famous Nez Perce Chief Joseph.

The Dyer collection was awarded medals and diplomas at the Kansas City Exposition in 1886, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, the Augusta, Georgia, Exposition in 1894, and the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895, after which it was returned to Kansas City and loaned to one of the public schools, but the Board of Education, recognizing its value as an educational medium, provided two rooms in the southwest corner of the Library building that all the school children could enjoy it; the space was not found sufficient for its proper display and later it was moved to the northwest room, and this proved the beginning of the present Museum.

In 1904, Colonel Dyer presented his collection to Kansas City and the Board of Education as a proper and fitting recognition of the generosity of the giver named the Museum "The Daniel B. Dyer Museum." This gift with contributions from many other individuals, resulted in a remarkable collection which first formed the substantial and permanent nucleus for a public museum; and to-day these original exhibits have been supplemented with numerous articles from generous people who are taking an earnest interest in the museum, until there is in the Library building one of the finest and rarest collections in this country, illustrating to a marked degree the value of such an institution in a community.

Of the one hundred and seventy public spirited citizens who have assisted since the foundation was so firmly established, no one deserves more credit than Mr. Edward Butts who has contributed thirteen well filled cases of prehistoric articles which are invaluable.

Captain Traber Norman has added a most valuable collection of arms personally secured while in the Philippine country during the SpanishAmerican war.

Mrs. Guy C. M. Godfrey's contribution consists of relics from the Philippine Islands collected by her late husband who served his country as assistant surgeon United States Army.

The Kansas City Star has also generously given a large and interesting collection secured by the Thirty-second Infantry U. S. Volunteers while in the Philippine country.

The K. W. Aldrich collection contains many beautiful objects from China and Japan.

The John Morley and the Herbert J. Snodgrass collections contain a large variety of rare and interesting eggs, from all parts of the country, while O. C. Sheley confines his collection to the eggs of Jackson county, except a set of Golden eagle eggs from New Mexico.

The museum is indebted to Dr. A. H. Cordier for several beautiful specimens of mounted elk, caribou and moose heads.

Mrs. Chester A. Snider has also given a very desirable collection of mounted animal heads and birds.

The Kansas City Stock Yards Company presented a mounted buffalo, one of the largest and finest specimens.

The museum is indebted to so large a number of people that it will be impossible in this connection to give all credit by personal mention.

Here are found clews to lost ages, relics of unknown races, specimens from the Mound builders, strange tablets, hieroglyphics, phehistoric pottery, garments, clothing, blankets, skins, war bonnets, moccasins, bows and arrows, war clubs, boats, hunting and fishing implements, pipes, ancient utensils, presenting the primitive beginning of man and of races long since forgotten. Persons interested in the early history of America find here an opportunity to examine a great mass of valuable material; sufficient for a liberal education if they will but successfully master the objects before them.

The student finds many examples of the rude arts and customs and traces the development from aboriginal life in a low state of barbarism to a primitive and semi-civilized people. Although in some cases all efforts of the scientist to solve the use to which certain objects were put, has been in vain.

Several enthusiastic experts and collectors of note, who have visited this museum pronounce it for size and variety one of the best to illustrate the object for which museums are maintained.

A museum is designed as a record of the progress of the ages; and to show the people who live, what and who were their predecessors. No problem connected with one's education is of deeper interest and as communities recognize this fact, public museums are established.

The Daniel B. Dyer Museum needs a new and more commodious habitation; there is not space to properly display the objects now in the building, to say nothing of the future growth of the institution.

The museum is under the control of the Board of Education, with Mrs. Amelia Jacobs, as curator.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

WOMEN'S CLUBS.

The first clubs were women's clubs, so the sociologists tell us.

back there in the "dim, red dawn of man"

Away