STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 



421 



taken a journey to Africa for the purpose of collecting specimens for 

 the museum. 



The labeling- of the collection is carried on with the greatest energ}-, 

 and everywhere one gets the impression of a museum well provided 

 with descriptive and instructive labels, particularly well printed. 

 The tendenc}^ to instruct the public in this respect is, in America 

 generally, more marked than with us. The printing establishment of 

 the museum prepared in 1898-09 over 7,000 labels, some very large, 

 3,500 of them for the anthropological department, and furnished also 

 95.000 other pieces of printed matter. In 1899-1900 nearly 8,000 

 labels were printed in the museum, 2,700 of which were for the 

 zoological department, and there were also furnished 100,000 copies 

 of other printed matter. 



Fig. 34.— Field Columbian Museum. Case with movable partition. 



The photogi-apliic establishment of the museum in 1S98-99 prepared 

 548 negatives, 2.S0 prints, 253 lantern slides, and other material: in 

 1899-1900 the corresponding figures were 1,148, 1,075, and 343. 



The arrangement and installation of the entire nuiseum gives, in 

 general, a pleasing impression, especially in the geological and botan- 

 ical , departments, which offer many* models, notwithstanding that in 

 particular cases the methods and kinds of installation do not always 

 come up to strict requirements. It should be remembered, however, 

 that the whole work has been accomplished within a few years, and 

 that some appliances already existing had to be accepted. There are, 

 for instance, remaining from the exposition of 1893 many cases and 

 desks with clums}' wooden frames and sides; but neither does the 



