262 Mei7ioriaI of Gcoi'ge Broion Goodc. 



tinned Mr. Conwa}-, "and this constant erection of new buildings and of 

 new decorations on those ah'eady erected, is the phj'siognomical expres- 

 sion of the new intellectual and aesthetic epoch which called the institu- 

 tion into existence, and is through it gradually climbing to results which 

 no man can foresee. ' ' 



My prayer for the museums of the United States and for all other 

 similar agencies of enlightenment is this — that they may never cease to 

 increase. 



