2o6 Memorial of George Brozvii Goode. 



D. — MUSEUM OFFICERS. 



1. A museum without intelligent, progressive, and well-trained cura- 

 tors is as ineffective as a school without teachers, a library without 

 librarians, or a learned society without a working membership of learned 

 men. 



2. Museum administration has become one of the learned professions, 

 and success in this field can only be attained as the result of years of 

 study and of experience in a well-organized museum. Intelligence, a 

 liberal education, administrative ability, enthusiasm, and that special 

 endowment which may be called " the museum sense," are prerequisite 

 qualifications. 



Each member of a museum staff should become an authority in some 

 special field of research, and should have time for investigation and 

 opportunity to publish its results. 



3. A museum which employs untrained curators must expect to pay 

 the cost of their education in delays, experimental failures, and waste of 

 materials, 



4. No investment is more profitable to a museum than that in its salary 

 fund, for only when this is liberal maj' the services of a permanent staff 

 of men of established reputation be secured. 



Around the nucleus of such a staff will naturally grow up a corps of 

 volunteer assistants, whose work, properly assisted and directed, will be 

 of infinite value. 



5. ' ' Collaborators " or " associates, ' ' as well as curators, may be placed 

 upon the staff of a large museum, the sole duty of the former being to 

 carry on investigations, to publish, and, if need be, to lecture. 



6. Volunteers may be advantageously employed either as curators and 

 custodians or collaborators. Such cooperation is especially desirable 

 and practicable when a museum is situated in the same town with a col- 

 lege or university, or in a national capital where there are scientific 

 bureaus connected with the government. Professors in a university or 

 scientific experts in the government service often find it of great advan- 

 tage to have free access to the facilities afforded by a museum, and are 

 usually able to render useful service in return. Younger men in the same 

 establishments may be employed as volunteer aids, either in the museum 

 or in the field. 



7. No man is fitted to be a museum officer who is disposed to repel 

 students or inquirers or to place obstacles in the wa}^ of access to the 

 material under his charge. 



8. A museum officer or employee should, for obvious reasons, never be 

 the possessor of a private collection. 



9. The museum which carries on explorations in the field as a part of 

 its regular work has great advantages over other institutions in holding 

 men of ability upon its staff and in securing the most satisfactory results 

 from their activities. No work is more exhausting to body and mind 



