Excerpt from the Entry register of antiquities, statistics, medals etc. to the Academic Museum of Geneva
1818-1871, p. 7. Reproduction
Archives de la Ville de Genève, Maca.B.1
This Genevan public museum saw the day thanks to the interest of scientific patricians for the natural sciences, archeology, local history and the "statistics of uncivilized peoples". It is under this label, announcing ethnography, that the objects from all over the world given by the friends of the Academy and inherited from the cabinet of curiosities part of the Library were inventoried.
On this page, the Pictet-Lullin (Louis Pictet de Pregny) donation registered in May 1824 under the nos 38-42 is mentioned. F. Morin/MEG
