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highly proper that these memorials of the past of Pittsburgh should 

 be preserved here, where they have a deeper meaning than they would 

 have elsewhere, and where they might serve objectively to teach les- 

 sons of patriotism to the rising generations in these great cities. The 

 dispersion of historic relics in the hands of individuals who, no matter 

 how highly they may prize them, are not able to display them in such a 

 way that they will benefit the public at large, is greatly to be deprecated. 



In the department of ethnology much valuable material has been 

 acquired. A recent accession of interest is a collection of arms and 

 utensils made for the Museum on the Congo by Mr. Walther Karl. 

 The collection has not yet been unpacked and arranged. 



Thus gradually the material at the Museum is being enriched by 

 things which cannot fail to prove instructive to the masses and at the 

 same time of positive interest to men of science. 



