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[[handwritten]] 5 To this there has since been added a cast of the famous Temple Stone which was secured through the good offices of the Hon. Vocar S. Straus late U. S. Minister at Constantinople. The collection also includes a miscellaneous set of objects from Egypt & Palestine presented by Dr. G. W. Samson. ^[[Beside the exhibition series a study series has been formed which includes a valuable collection of oriental manuscripts and books, the collection of the late Wm. B. Hodgson, deposited by the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences of Savannah, Ga.]] Before the organization of this section much of the material which would find place in a Department of Oriental Antiquities had been collected for the Museum and installed in other departments, where it still remains. [[/handwritten]]
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The Telfair Academy still exists; see http://www.telfair.org/visit/telfair/