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A pedagogical museum is to be estabhshed at the University of Texas for the 

 purpose of furnishing instruction in the university regular courses, and in 

 the courses of the university summer school, to those who are fitting themselves 

 to be teachers. The collections will be classified as follows : 



a. Plans of school buildings, of heating and ventilating apparatus, school 

 furniture, and decorations for school rooms. 



d. Maps, charts, globes, models, and all scientific apparatus ; supplies 

 required for demonstration and laboratory work in mathematics, physics, chem- 

 istry, botany, zoology, physiology, etc., in grammar and high-school courses. 



c. Kindergarten material and primary aids. 

 ^/. Manual training tools and benches. 



e. Sets of text-books. 

 /. Pedagogical works. 



The primary object of this museum is to bring together these various objects 

 and the apparatus required in the equipment of a school, and to introduce them to 

 the notice of teachers in such a manner as to give them an idea not only of what 

 may be had for the work which they will be called upon to do, but the proper 

 methods for the use and care of it. This is a long step in advance and one 

 which ought to bear abundant fruit in Texas. The excellent example of the 

 University of Texas ought to be followed in every institution which sends out 

 men and women to teach the sciences. Familiarity with apparatus and skill in 

 its manipulation are fully as important factors in the successful teacher's equip- 

 ment as knowledge of the principles and minutiae of biology, for without them 

 effective demonstration is difficult, if not impossible. It is a sorry painter who 

 can not mix his own colors, and a teacher who is not the master of those means 

 of demonstration required in the laboratory, and who does not enter into every 

 detail of the construction, equipment, and business conduct of the laboratory, or 

 that part of it over which he presides, can scarcely be expected to do justice to 

 himself or his pupils. 



