ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME XIII, NOS. 3-4. 



Editorial Notes. 



The general collections of the Museum in its various sections have 

 been greatly enlarged during the past months by gifts, collections 

 made by members of the staff, and by a few purchases. There have 

 also been numerous loans of interesting and valuable collections which 

 have been duly displayed. The collections either owned by the Mu- 

 seum or deposited in its custody, according to the last Annual Report 

 of the Director, represent a monetary value of $i,737,355-49- 



The educational work of the Museum in liaison with the public 

 schools, the colleges of western Pennsylvania, and the University of 

 Pittsburgh is constantly assuming greater proportions, and its re- 

 sources are being heavily taxed to meet the demands made upon it. 

 To comply with these demands is particularly difficult, because of the 

 amount of time which requires to be expended both by the Director 

 and his associates in directly acting as instructors, or in responding 

 to the almost innumerable written requests for information which 

 are made. 



Museums, such as the Carnegie Museum, find themselves called 

 upon in these days to function very much like libraries, as fountains 

 of information for the general public; with this difference, that in a 

 Museum things take the place of books. There is a constantly grow- 

 ing number of persons, who, rather than read about, or look at 



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