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in lessons of this kind. Such lessons 

 could be expanded and carried on into 

 picture-writing, folklore, religious and 

 social customs, effects of climate and 

 natural resources on development of 

 culture and on the temperament of 

 peoples, all stated in simple terms with 

 material illustration. 



The child being in the objective stage 

 of mental de\'elopment is interested in 

 primitive man, the problems that he 

 faced and the means he used to soh'e 

 these problems successfully — ^although 

 the needs of the boy of to-day may be 

 working themselves out through the 

 construction of complicated motor boats, 

 aeroplanes or instruments for amateur 

 wireless telegraphy. All technical labor 

 however gains in dignity when one knows 



its beginnings. Perhaps the products of 

 human labor will increase in beauty 

 when we understand that the need for 

 beauty is an essential element in human- 

 ity. It lies at the root of the forming of 

 moral principles, of all social evolution. 

 It leads toward the perfecting of the tool 

 to its use, to the satisfying of the instinct 

 of joy, toward health and uprightness. 



In the folk museums and historical 

 collections of Europe, this method of 

 teaching history could be carried readily 

 into the study of a nation or of European 

 culture as a whole. In America the 

 museums of fine arts can provide the 

 lessons when the study passes beyond the 

 period of the foundations of culture, into 

 those periods in which the expression of 

 human activity is more complex. 



MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the fol- 

 lowing persons have been elected to member- 

 ship in the Museum: 



Associate Benefactors, Hon. Joseph H. 

 Choate, Mr. Anson W. Hard, Mrs. John 

 B. Trevor and Mr. John B. Trevor; 



Patrons, Mrs. Harriet L. Schuyler, Mrs. 

 Robert Winthrop, and Messrs. Frederick 

 F. Brewster and F. Augustus Schermer- 

 horn; 



Honorary Fellow, Mr. Vilhjalmur Stef- 

 ansson; 



Life Members, Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, 

 Miss Beatrice Bend, Dr. P. J. Oettinger, 

 and Messrs. William G. Bibb, William P. 

 Clyde, Sidney M. Colgate, H. P. Davison, 

 George C. Longley and Paul A. Schoell- 

 kopf; 



Sustaining Member, Mr. Max William 

 Stohr; 



Annual Members, Countess E. Festetics, 

 Mrs. Frank W. Ballard, Mrs. Lawrence 

 P. Bayne, Mrs. W.'C. Bergh, Mrs. O. W. 

 Bird, Mrs. Robert C. Black, Mrs. Jona- 

 than Bulkley, Mrs. James A. Burden, Jr., 

 Mrs. D. Jones Chain, Mrs. David P. 

 Morgan, Mrs. E. Moses, Mrs. Regina 

 Armstrong Niehaus, Mrs. J. E. Watson, 

 Miss Anna R. Alexandre, Miss Vera A. H. 



Cravath, Miss Lida L. Dodds, Miss Mary 



E. Harrington, Miss G. T. Sackett, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Eugene E. Mapes, Hon. David 

 Leventritt, Dr. LeRoy Broun, Dr. 

 Harold A. Foster, Dr. Moritz Gross, 

 Professor Julius Sachs, and Messrs. H. B. 

 Adriance, John S. Baird, Otto F. Behrend, 

 Charles S. Brown, Jr., Malcolm Camp- 

 bell, George E. Claflin, Ashton C. 

 Clarkson, Paul B. Conkling, E. V. Con- 

 NETT, Jr., F. G. Cooper, Howard Corlies, 



F. W. M. Cutcheon, Erich Dankelmann, 

 Geo. Bird Grinnell, Theodore Gross, 

 Richard Howe, David Huyler, Elias 

 Kempner, George Lauder, Jr., Carl K. 

 MacFadden, Edward G. Miner, Carleton 

 Montgomery, I. C. Rosenthal, Milton P. 

 Skinner, Norman F. Torrance, T. Edwin 

 Ward, Horace Waters, T. Wolfson. 



At the annual meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees the following new trustees were 

 elected: Mr. George F. Baker, to fill the 

 vacancy due to the death of Mr. J. Pierpont 

 Morgan; Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, for the 

 vacancy made by Mr. William Rockefeller's 

 resignation necessitated by ill health; Mr. 

 Henry C. Frick for the position opened 

 through the death of Mr. George S. Bowdoin; 



