In 1910 a small group of objects gathered by Dr. Albert L. Shelton, a medical missionary in Tibet, was exhibited at the Newark Museum through the interest of Mr. Edward N. Crane, a Museum Trustee. These articles, numbering 150, and representing the more elegant aspects of Tibetan life, were later presented to the Museum by Mr. Crane's family, as a memorial to him, thus forming the nucleus of the Museum's Tibetan Collection which today includes 1200 objects and ranks with the other two important collections in the United States—those of the American Museum of Natural History and the Chicago Natural History Museum.