people, and passed to a consideration of the early peoples, savage 

 and civilized, who occupied the island in the early periods of 

 history, leading in this way up to the Dutch rule, British rule, 

 the Revolution, etc. 



The Worcester Art Museum endeavored especially to acquaint 

 the children with buildings of different countries and periods by 

 presenting them as expressions of the life and circumstances of 

 the people, and to arouse interest in the buildings in Worcester 

 by showing the traditions by which they were produced. 



Story-telling was one of the chief methods of presentation 

 adopted by all of these museums. These papers aroused in- 

 tense interest among museum workers and will probably lead to 

 more extensive experiments along the same line. 



Mr. Edward K. Putnam, acting director of the Davenport 

 Academy of Sciences, presented a general survey of American 

 City Museums with regard to the support afforded them by their 

 municipalities. His paper is an illuminating presentation of the 

 extent to which the museum idea is recognized by city govern- 

 ments throughout the country. 



Mr. C. G. Rathmann, assistant superintendent of Schools, 

 and in especial charge of the Educational Museum of the public 

 schools of St. Louis, read a paper on the Museum and the Schools 

 in Europe which brought out in an interesting way the difference 

 in the educational work of museums in this country and abroad. 

 In general, European museums are less advanced in the circu- 

 lation of traveling exhibits among the schools, but are far in 

 advance of this country in the extent to which the schools visit 

 and study the museums, art galleries, and theaters. They also 

 have school museums of a type which does not exist in the United 

 States. The purpose of these is to help the principal select the 

 proper illustrative material or apparatus for his school, and to 

 furnish teachers with reading matter and exhibits for professional 

 study and cultural improvement. 



Mr. Rathmann notes that on a Sunday morning when he vis- 

 ited the Naturgeschichtliche Museum in Vienna he was told at 



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