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of other research schools and museums 

 and especially in acting as a central 

 institution for the collection and distri- 

 bution of research materials and a 

 storehouse for valuable morphological 

 material which has been studied and is 

 to be conserved for future comparisons. 

 The Wistar Museum was instituted 

 in 1808 by Dr. Casper Wistar and in- 

 corporated as an independent institu- 

 tion in 1893 to foster and increase and 

 make useful the museum originally 

 known as the Wistar, or Wistar and 



of managers. During the past twelve 

 years the museum of the institute has 

 multiplied its collections by six and 

 their value by fifty, researches have 

 been encouraged and much valuable 

 work has been turned out, not to men- 

 tion the great use which has been made 

 of its museum (which is open free to 

 the public) , by students of medicine and 

 natural history from the various educa- 

 tional institutions. The line in which 

 the Wistar Institute has made decided 

 progress is in museum technique; the 



Method of Storing Valuable Osteological Material in Dust-proof Steel Cases; 



the Specimens are in Trays. 



Horner Museum — the first museum of 

 human anatomy in America — and to 

 promote researches in human and com- 

 parative anatomy. A charter was se- 

 cured from the state of Pennsylvania, 

 a modern fireproof building and endow- 

 ment being given by General Isaac J. 

 Wistar to maintain the equipment. This 

 endowment has been most generously 

 doubled and quadrupled several times 

 over since 1893 by the same donor, al- 

 most without the knowledge of its board 



development of new methods of exhibit- 

 ing specimens, new dust proof steel and 

 glass cases, new form of glass exhibi- 

 tion vessels, the value of which has 

 been recognized both at home and 

 abroad. Most of this #ork, especially 

 the experimental part, is done in its 

 own machine shops, and it is likely that 

 a high degree of technical skill will be 

 developed here. This in itself enables 

 the institute to be of great assistance 

 to research anatomy, especially in those 



