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The ethnological collections in Washington are classified on a double 

 system, in one of its features corresponding to that of the European, 

 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 Lyons to Paris, which is intended to illustrate the history 

 of religions 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 ma- 

 rines 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 coun- 

 tries. Of musical 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 Kensington, 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 the Conservatory of Music in Bos- 

 ton, 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 Francais in Paris, a 

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

 which has its counterpart in South Kensington. These are profes- 

 sional, rather than scientific or educational, as are perhaps also the Mu- 

 seum of Practical Fish Culture at South Kensington and the Museums 

 of Hygiene in London and Washington. 



Archaeological collections are of two classes, those of prehistoric and 

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

 graphic musenms, the latter by the art museums. The value to the 

 historian of archaeological collections, both historic and prehistoric, has 

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

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

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

 Columbian period, collections which are yearly growing in significance, 

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

 amount of material of this kind in the hands of institutions and private 

 collectors in all parts of the United States. 



The museum at Naples shows, so far as a museum can, the history of 

 Pompeii at one period. The museum of St. Germain, near Paris, ex- 

 hibits the history of France in the time of the Cauls and of the IJoman 



