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is too often thought of as a storeroom or mausoleum in 

 which musty specimens are stored away to be pored over 

 by spectacled savants who live in a world by themselves. 

 It is sadly true that this conception is not without founda- 

 tion, for there are many museums in universities, col- 

 leges, normal schools, and academies, which are this and 

 nothing else. But the modern museum is a vastly differ- 

 ent thing, filled w^ith objects potentially arranged, await- 

 ing use b}^ all progressive teachers. 



In closing may I use the words of one of England's 

 greatest museum men. Sir William H. Flower, who says 

 ''It is not the objects placed in a museum that constitute 

 its value, so much as the method in which they are dis- 

 played and the use made of them for the purpose of in- 

 struction". 



