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making ornaments, as the case may be. Finally, above the alcove 

 exhibit, mural paintings of an entire settlement show the lillage life. 

 Thus is told in a comparatively small space a complete story of Congo 

 home life in a manner highly instructive and artistic as well. 



The Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt is in connection with the 

 University. The building is modern, well lighted and provided with a 

 large hall ecjin'pped for lectures and study. A group of African antelope 

 with a painted background to show environment proclaims the enter- 

 prize of the institution and the tendency of its work. The large Diplo- 

 docus presented l)y the late INIr. Morris K. Jesup, while president of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, stands in the main foyer. 



The world to-day demands not only that the modern museum shall 

 exhibit a multitude of rare and splendid specimens for the use of scientists 

 and students, but also that it shall so install these specimens that they 

 will make a vivid appeal to the ordinary observer, forcefully portraying 

 stages in the evolution of the material world and in the history of civiliza- 

 tion. 



THE INTERNATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBITION. 



UNDER the auspices of the Charity Organization Society of the 

 City of New York, the International Tuberculosis Exhibition 

 opened November 3()th in the new northwest wing of the 

 Museum. It immediately proved its power to attract. By the close 

 of the fourth day it had been visited by 65,000 people, and before the end 

 of the first week liy one-third of the half-million attendance expected by 

 the society for the whole period of six weeks. 



So admirably is the exhibition organized that it readily permits 

 comparative study. The extensive German display, prepared under 

 the auspices of the Imperial Board of Health of Berlin, stands mainly 

 for treatment and cure, as do also the exliibits of Switzerland, Hungary 

 and several other foreign nations, while Ireland's notable campaign 

 under the Women's National Health Association has l)een aimed toward 

 an education that would l)ring about prevention. 



The keynote of the American exhibits also is prevention. Those of 

 Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are realistic in the presentation of actual 



