Show university MUSEUM IS SECOND TO NONE the university of utah has the i best and most complete museum ot vestern american archaeological archeological arche relics that I 1 have ever visited said professor W F director of the american school of oriental research at jerusalem who has been charge of investigations of the ancient people of palestine for some ears past professor delivered a lecture before the students of the university of utah relative to his research in the holy land pointing out ancient civilizations that held rule over the land many hundreds of years ago the abst conspicuous thing about the utah specimens according to professor was their similarity to those discovered around the dead sea the designs found on pottery uncovered at both bites were very similar the cross a r prevalent design the world over predominating also the style and shape of the vessels are very much alike showing a development of the ancient people of america equal to that attained by the jews and other people of he mesopotamia Meso potania districts professor lauded the uni ter sity highly for getting an early start in the collection of specimens and the effort that is being made to retain all specimens of archaeological archeological arche significance within the state |