2o8 Mejuorial of George Droiun Goode. 



{F) Laboratories for the classification of material, for the storage of 

 the study series, and for the use of students and investigators, 



(c) Workshops for preparation, mounting, and repair of specimens, and 

 for the making and adjustment of mounts and cases, and storage rooms 

 for material iwt yet available. (A printing press is an essential feature. ) 



(fl^) An assembly hall for public lectures, society meetings, and special 

 exhibitions. 



{e) A bulletin or other official publication to preserve the history of 

 its activities, to maintain its standing among similar institutions, to serve 

 as a means of communication with correspondents, and to exchange for 

 specimens and books for the library. 



2. In addition to local accessories, the opportunity for exploration and 

 field work are equally essential, not only because of considerations con- 

 nected with the efficiency of the staff already referred to," but in behalf 

 of the general welfare of the institution. Other things being equal, 

 exploration can be carried on more advantageously by the museum than 

 by any other institution of learning, and there is no other field of 

 research which it can pursue to better advantage. 



IV.— THE CLASSIFICATION OF MUSEUMS. 



Museums may best be classified in two ways — by the character of their 

 contents, and by the purposes for which they are founded. 



Under the first category they may be grouped as follows: 



(a) Art museums; (/5) historical museums ; (<:) anthropological mu- 

 seums; i^d) natural history museums; (£•) technological or industrial 

 museums; (/) commercial museums. 



Under the second category they may be classed as: 



(^) National museums; (^) local, provincial, or city museums; {i) 

 college and school museums; (7) professional or class museums; {k) 

 private museums or cabinets. 



Comment. — In the reference to special museums in this chapter, nothing has 

 been further from my idea than to catalogue existing museums. Many of the most 

 important are not even referred to by name. I have spoken only of those which 

 are especially familiar to myself, and which seem to be the best illustration of the 

 idea in connection with which they are named, 



A. — ART MUSEUMS. 



I. The museum of art is a depository for the aesthetic products of 

 man's creative genius, such as paintings, sculptures, architecture (so far 

 as it can be shown by models, drawings, and structural fragments), and 

 specimens of the illustrative arts (such as engravings), and illustrations 

 of the application of art to decorative uses. 



'See Chapter III. d., p. 204. 



