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POPULAR SCIENCE 



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MAT, 1901. 



THE CAENEGIE MUSEUM.* 



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By W. J. HOLLAND, LL. D., 

 DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM. 



IT was a glorious summer day. The sunlight gleamed through the 

 trees, which covered the mountain-top. Checkers of light and 

 shade wove themselves upon the fern-clad soil. Seated upon the trunk 

 of a fallen tree the man whose name to-day is borne by scores of in- 

 stitutions, which his more than princely benevolence has founded, 

 talked to a friend in relation to his plans for the great city, the history 

 of the growth of which is closely linked with the story of his own 

 wonderful career. "The Allegheny Library will before long be nearing 

 completion," he said, "and the time is approaching to execute my de- 

 sigQB for Pittsburgh. In my original offer I agreed to give Pittsburgh 

 a quarter of a million of dollars with which to build a library, but I 

 mean to enlarge my gift, and make it a million. I have given Allegheny 

 a library and a music-hall. I wish to do as much for Pittsburgh. The 

 library idea is central. My convictions on that subject are established. 

 But I wish to do something more than to found a library in Pittsburgh. 

 I am thinking of incorporating with the plan for a library that of an 

 art-gallery in which shall be preserved a record of the progress and 

 development of pictorial art in America, and perhaps also of making 

 some provision for advancing knowledge among the people through 

 the addition of accommodations for the various societies which 

 in recent years have struggled into existence among us. These societies 

 deserve to be encouraged. I mean the Art Society, the Botanical Society 

 of Western Pennsylvania, the Microscopical Society of Pittsburgh, and 



• Prepared at the special request of the Editor of the Popular Sciknce 

 Monthly. 



