Gifts from Germany

Professor Kuno Francke, curator of the Germanic Museum, announces that two important gifts are soon to arrive from Germany. The Chapter of Breslau Cathedral, at the suggestion of Professor Kukenthal, formerly German Exchange Professor at Harvard University has given the Museum a cast of one of the earliest authenticated works by Peter Vischer, the ornate sepulchral belief of John Roth, bishop of Breslau This relief, now on its way, will have to be stored until the completion of the pre building. The same is true of the large collection of Rhenish sculptures from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, a gift from the Provincial Government of Rhenish Prussia, which according to the announcement from Theseldorf, has already been shipped.