is realized that exhibits must be attractively installed in order 

 to stimulate a desire for information, and to satisfy this desire 

 as soon as created descriptive labels are employed, the composi- 

 tion and printing of which involve many of the principles of 

 preparing advertising copy. A valuable accessory to the de- 

 scriptive label is the museum library, where full information 

 may be had upon subjects related to the exhibits and where tired 

 sightseers may find interesting reading. 



These principles of museum administration are now generally 

 recognized, as well as the advantages of the further plan of in- 

 troducing economic and industrial exhibits in connection with 

 raw materials. The term "introducing" is used advisedly, 

 for the conception of the museum as an important department of 

 the public service whose proper work begins with a survey of 

 natural products and resources, arranges and describes them in 

 a scientific manner, and exhibits fully their relation to human 

 needs has been attained by few museum workers and by still 

 fewer communities. This idea does not lead to the commercial 

 museum as generally understood, but rather to a museum which 

 shall so balance pure and applied science as not only to satisfy 

 the devotees of both but to bring them to a better understand- 

 ing of each other. The successful development of this idea 

 inevitably means better financial support for pure science and 

 at the same time more practical science. From the point of 

 view of the museum administrator this is merely a problem of 

 efficiency. From the point of view of the average tax-payer it is 

 simply making the museum practical. The community which 

 grasps the possibilities of such a movement will have discovered 

 a new and important factor in civic progress. It will make its 

 museum a pemianent exposition of its resources and industries 

 and in doing this will learn the value of scientific accuracy and 

 of investigation in pure science as the basis of all apphed science, 



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