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In the United vStates the i)riiici])al estabhshnieiits arraiii^ed on the 

 ethnoi^raphic plan are the Peal)()dy Museum of Archaeology in Cam- 

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

 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 Kuropean; 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 

 ethnograpliic museums, who devote their attention almost exclusively to 

 the primitive or non-Iuiropean 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 Musce Guimet, recently re- 

 moved from Lyons to Paris, whicli 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 jMusee de Marine, 

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

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

 histor}" of the naval battles of the nation. The Miisee d' Artillerie does 

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

 department, and there are similar nuiseums in other countries. Of nuisi- 

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

 founded by Clapisson, attached to the Conservatory of ]\Iitsic in Paris. 

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

 sington, btit its contents are selected in reference to their stiggestiveness 

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

 Museum in Washington and in the Conservator^' of Music in Boston, 

 and the Metropc^litan Museum in New York has recently been given a 

 very full collection by Mrs. J<^hn Crosby Brown, of that city. 



There is a Theatrical Museum at the Academic P'rangaisc in Paris, a 

 Museum of Joiu'nalism in Antwerp, a Museum of Pedagogy in Paris, 

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

 rather than scientific or educational, as are perhaps also the Mu.seum of 

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

 giene in London and Washington. 



Archceological collections are of two classes, those of prehistoric and 

 historic archaeology. The former arc usually absorl)ed by the ethno- 

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

 torian of archaeological collections, l)()t]; historic and prehistoric, has long- 

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

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

 innnense collections of th.e remains of man in America in tlie pre-Colum- 

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

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



