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on subjects in which they are specialists. These lectures may 

 be given either in the schools or at the museum, or wherever 

 circumstances may require. 



The museum must be a public museum. We have long had 

 public schools designed to prepare our children for rational 

 living and good citizenship. A little later public libraries 

 came to be considered as a necessary part of the educational 

 plant. If public schools and public libraries, why not public 

 museums f 



Every city, town and community in the land taxes itself 

 heavily to support the public schools. Many do the same for 

 public libraries. A few, a very few as yet, tax themselves to 

 support public museums. But the time is not far distant, I 

 verily believe, when the public museum will be recognized as 

 an essential part of the educational equipment of every town 

 and city. 



Now, all this means money and men. A great museum can 

 not be built up nor maintained without funds and men. 



Provision must be made for the expenses of field work, of ex- 

 ploration and research. And the museum must have adequate 

 funds and an adequate force of experts to prepare the habitat 

 groups and the other exhibition material, the loan collections, 

 the transparencies, the photographs and stereopticon slides ; to 

 care for the research and other collections ; to do the research 

 work; and to do the multitude of things which must be done 

 in any live, growing, efficient museum. 



Undoubtedly the best way to build up and maintain a great 

 museum is by means of large general and specific endowments 

 which yield definite annual incomes to be devoted to specific 

 purposes. Among the endowments which the California 

 Academy of Sciences should receive the following may be men- 

 tioned : 



1. An Endozvment for Exploration and Research. 



This endowment should be in a sum of not less than 

 $2,500,000 that would yield an income of, say, $100,000, to 

 be devoted to exploration and investigation of the zoology, 

 botany, geology, and anthropology of the Pacific coasts of 

 the Americas and the islands of the Pacific. The need for 

 this endowment is urgent, for the native races of these regions 



