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The preparation of small portable educational groups 

 should be commenced and proceeded with as rapidly as the 

 materials can be collected. Exhibits in other departments, as 

 botany, entomology, herpetology, paleontology, geology, etc., 

 should soon receive attention. Exhibits should not be limited 

 to the departments of birds, mammals, and anthropology. 



Research Collections. — Although the funds of the Acad- 

 emy are quite inadequate to meet its needs, to enable it to do 

 much of that which it would like to do along the various lines 

 of its legitimate activities it is important that none of its essen- 

 tial functions be even temporarily entirely abandoned. While 

 most attention must for the present be given to the exhibition 

 phase of museum equipment, the necessity for the enlargement 

 of the research collections must not be forgotten. These col- 

 lections should be enlarged by the addition of desirable speci- 

 mens secured by purchase, exchange, donation and field col- 

 lecting, and selected to meet the research needs of investiga- 

 tors. The several departments should be productive in scien- 

 tific investigation and the study material must be provided. 

 Such allotments of funds for field work and the acquiring of 

 specimens should therefore be made as the income of the Acad- 

 emy will justify. 



