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111 the United vStates the principal estabhshiueiits arranged on the 

 ethnographic plan are the Peabody Museum of Archaeology in Cam- 

 bridge and the collections in the Peabody Academy of vSciences in Salem, 

 and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 



The ethnological collections in Washington are classified on a double 

 system; in one of its features corresponding to that of the luiropean; in 

 the other, like the famous Pitt- Rivers collection at Oxford, arranged to 

 show the evolution of culture and civilization without regard to race. 

 This broader plan admits much material excluded by the advocates of 

 ethnographic museums, who devote their attention almost exclusively to 

 the primitive or non-European peoples. 



In close relation to the ethnographic museums are those which are 

 devoted to some special field of human thought and interest. Most 

 remarkable among these, perhaps, is the Musee Guimet, recently re- 

 moved from lyyons to Paris, which is intended to illustrate the history 

 of religious ceremonial among all races of men. Other good examples 

 of this class are some of those in Paris, such as the Musee de Marine, 

 which shows not only the development of the merchant and naval marines 

 of the country, but also, by trophies and other historical souvenirs, the 

 history of the naval battles of the nation. The Musee d' Artillerie does 

 for war, but less thoroughly, what the Marine Museum does in its own 

 department, and there are similar museums in other countries. Of musi- 

 cal museums, perhaps, the most important is the Musee Instrumental 

 founded by Clapisson, attached to the Conservatory of Music in Paris. 

 There is a magnificent collection of musical instruments at South Ken- 

 sington, but its contents are selected in reference to their suggestiveness 

 in decorative art. There are also large collections in the National 

 Museum in Washington and in the Conservatory of Music in Boston, 

 and the Metropolitan Museum in New York has recently been given a 

 very full collection by Mrs. John Crosby Brown, of that city. 



There is a Theatrical Museum at the Academie Frangaise in Paris, a 

 Museum of Journalism in Antwerp, a Museum of Pedagogy in Paris, 

 which has its counterpart in South Kensington. These are professional, 

 rather than scientific or educational, as are perhaps also the Museum of 

 Practical Fish Culture at South Kensington and the Museums of Hy- 

 giene in lyondon and Washington. 



Archaeological collections are of two classes, those of prehistoric and 

 historic archaeology. The former are usually absorbed by the ethno- 

 graphic museums, the latter by the art museums. The value to the his- 

 torian of archaeological collections, both historic and prehistoric, has long 

 been understood. The museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome 

 need no comment. In Cambridge, New York, and Washington are 

 immense collections of the remains of man in America in the pre-Colum- 

 bian period, collections which are yearly growing in significance, as they 

 are made the subject of investigation, and there is an immense amount of 



