HISTORY 2 1 



Other rooms are stored collections which have been made during the 

 explorations and expeditions of the professors and their assistants (as 

 well as in other ways) ; collections without which it is impossible for a 

 teacher or professor in natural history to exist. All questions, for in- 

 stance, which relate to geographical distribution on land and sea, to 

 variations, to systematic zoology, and to the history of the human 

 race, can only be solved by immense collections, carefully made, and 

 which can be studied with ample room. Those are the conditions 

 which a university must aim to give to its professors. 



" It is of the greatest importance that a university museum should 

 not attempt to do what larger museums can do with impunity. Our 

 object is not to make vast collections, simply for the sake of having 

 vast collections. Our object should be to make collections in such a 

 way that they may be used to illustrate certain points, or used to 

 carry on certain lines of investigation. That is really the function of 

 a university museum." 



