APPENDIX A LXI 
The characteristic features of the modern museum are specializa- 
tion and classification. Thus through specialization arise museums 
of botany, of zoology, of mineralogy, and geology; pathological, 
chemical, agricultural, industrial, and educational museums; museums 
of art and of archeology. Our annual fairs are museums and should 
- be clearly recognized and insisted on as part of our educational system. 
The instructional value of a museum depends, however, on intelligent 
classification and arrangement. Thus in an archeological museum 
the object is to illustrate the development of ‘civilization; and the 
arrangement should show the advance of mankind through the suc- 
ceeding stone, bronze, and iron ages, as well as the progress within 
each of these periods. The archzlogical then becomes the historical 
museum and shows the growth of industries and inventions, the 
varying condition of the people, and the development of the aesthetic 
faculties. Thus history is restored, and succeeding generations of 
men, their habits, and psychology are better understood. We see 
how closely our primitive ancestors resembled the savage of to-day. 
In Sweden and Denmark the value of museums as an adjunct to 
historical teaching is recognized; school children are taken through 
the rooms and the meaning of the exhibits explained. 
The museum is an important adjunct to artistic and technical 
education. It is not necessary to enlarge on the value of the Kensing- 
ton Museum in this respect. It is of interest to know that the furni- 
ture manufacturers of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with intelligent 
enterprise, are forming furniture museums for the convenience of their 
designers. I have heard a gentleman, who should know what he is 
talking about, ascribe the great advance in American architecture 
and furniture designs to the educative influence of the Metropolitan 
Museum of New York. 
Even large museums should seek to be strong in some special 
direction. Local museums should illustrate the history of the sur- 
rounding country, its geology, paleontology, flora and fauna, and 
whatever industries may be there pursued. In this way in agricul- 
tural sections the public mind could be most convincingly impressed 
with the value of scientific farming. The universities of Canada, 
with their scientific departments and medical and dental schools are 
fully alive to the importance of illustrative museums, and their enter- 
prise in such matters is only restrained by the expense involved. 
Every high school and collegiate institute might well have a small 
museum illustrative, within limits, of the flora, fauna and geology 
of the district in which it is situated. 
In the United States the Metropolitan Museum of New York 
is one of the great educational institutions of the nation. The Museum 
