ANNALS 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME II. NO. I. 



Editorial. 



The first part of the second volume of the Annals of the Carnegie 

 Museum goes to press just as intelligence reaches us of the decision of 

 the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which definitely settles the ques- 

 tion of the right of the municipality to appropriate lands for park pur- 

 poses, though such purchase is avowedly made with the ulterior object 

 of placing thereon buildings such as the proposed extension of the 

 Carnegie Institute. It is needless to say that the decision of the court 

 has been received with unalloyed satisfaction, not merely by those 

 who are strictly concerned with the administration of the affairs of the 

 Institute, but by the entire population of the city. So far as is known 

 no decision in recent years touching public matters in the city of Pitts- 

 burg has given more profound satisfaction to the masses of the people 

 than that which has just been rendered. When the gracious founder 

 of the Institute conceived the idea of adding halls to the library, in 

 which science and the arts should find fitting homes, he paved the way 

 for adding immeasurably to the pleasures of existence in this busy 

 metropolis of the iron industry. The citizen of to-day can scarcely 

 realize as he looks back how he endured the conditions of life in the 

 Pittsburgh of the past, which was a Pittsburgh, so far as the public was 

 concerned, without books, without pictures, without a museum. The 

 throng of those who weekly resort to the halls of the Institute, coming 



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