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and going with pleasure manifestly written upon their countenances, 

 furnish elo([uent proof in their mere numbers of the manner in which 

 the wise forethought of Andrew Carnegie has met a human necessity. 

 Men do not live by bread alone. There are hungerings and thirstings 

 besides those of the mere body, and he does a great good to any com- 

 munity who endeavors to meet these appetencies which are more dis- 

 tinctively human than hunger and thirst. 



After years of waiting we now hope soon to see the plans that have 

 been formed for the extension of the Institute and thus for the exten- 

 sion of its power and usefulness carried into effect. It is with un- 

 feigned pleasure that we are able to say that at last the dawn of de- 

 liverance breaks and the way is opening to that larger life for the en- 

 joyment of which the founder has made magnificent provision. The 

 Library will erelong have possession of the entire space occupied by 

 the present building. The Art Gallery will have what it requires for 

 the display of the pictures which are already possessed and which may 

 hereafter be ac(}uired, as well as for the annual exhibitions which have 

 proved so important. The Museum will enter upon rooms fitted, it is 

 hoped, for many long years to display the gradually accumulating stores 

 of things illustrative of the forms of life and of human development 

 and history, which make such a spot resorted to by thousands. Added 

 to these exhil)ition halls will be laboratories and study rooms in which 

 provision will be made for the prosecution of original research. 

 Herein is the chief glory and crown of an institution of this character, 

 that it not merely tells what man has done, but does that, which man 

 never heretofore has done, in the way of developing a knowledge of 

 the mysteries of the universe. It is sincerely hoped that with new and 

 enlarged facilities the Carnegie Museum will become to a higher de- 

 gree the exponent in Pittsburgh of the spirit of scientific investigation. 



It is with much pleasure that we are able to continue in this num- 

 ber of the Annals the presentation of the records of the old Virginia 

 courts which were held in southwestern Pennsylvania in the years im- 

 mediately preceding the settlement of the boundary controversy be- 

 tween Virginia and Pennsylvania. The student of local history will 

 find much in these records of great interest, and their preservation in 

 printed form will no doubt be regarded as an important service to the 

 cause of the local historian. It is hoped in the present volume of the 



