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ments and utensils in use among these various tribes. The same remark 

 holds good of the Esquimaux of Alaska. 



The archeology of the old world has not been forgotten, and 

 already, partly by gift and partly by purchase, considerable assemblages 

 of specimens throwing light upon the ancient civilizations of southern 

 Europe, Egypt and Asia Minor have been secured. The collection of 

 reproductions of the famous Neapolitan bronzes, presented by Mr. 

 Carnegie, duplicates for Pittsburgh the same series now in the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art in New York. The collections annually ob- 

 tained through the Pittsburgh Branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund 

 constitute an ever-growing series of high valuable and important objects. 



The development of the domestic and industrial arts in America 

 from the first colonization to the present is illustrated by a series of 



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Model of Conestog.'V Wagon, made ky Wilson Banks and T. A. Mills. 



collections to which additions are being rapidly made. The evolution 

 of methods of transportation is shown by a long series of models con- 

 structed by Mr. Wilson Banks, Mr. T. A. Mills and others. This series 

 is in part a reduplication of specimens now in the U. S. National 

 Museum at Washington. 



The end for which museums exist is not simply the acquisition and 

 preservation of curious and instructive specimens. The great object 

 which such an institution should ever keep in view is the diffusion of 

 knowledge. The management of the Carnegie Museum has realized 

 this from the very inception of its work. Care has been devoted to the 

 proper arrangement, dis])]ay and labeling of those parts of the collec- 

 tions placed on view. The late C Brown Goode once said in substance, 



