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presented by museums. Of course both naturalists and edu- 

 cators are aware that we are in the midst of an era of mu- 

 seum development, and that public museums especially are mul- 

 tiplying in number and extent far beyond all precedent — indeed 

 the museum is the correlative both of object teaching in pri- 

 mary education and of scientific and technical training in ad- 

 vanced institutions, and thus meets a growing demand. Now 

 it is noteworthy that the departments of anthropology in the 

 museums of the country are particularly attractive both to 

 casual visitors and to investigators, and that they are growing 

 on the average more rapidly than other departments ; which 

 means that in museum corps the opportunities for anthropologic 

 students average well. Of the branches of general anthro- 

 pology, archeology is most attractive in museums, partly be- 

 cause of the wide-spread intuitive interest in human relics which 

 draws visitors and contributors, and partly by reason of the 

 abundance of material ; next follows ethnology, with its prep- 

 arations and other exhibits illustrating the types of mankind 

 and the artifacts and ctistoms by which peoples are defined and 

 classified. There is a current tendency toward the differentia- 

 tion of mnsetims in two primary classes, viz., museums or art, 

 including painting, sculpture, and other esthetic productions of 

 mankind ; and museums of nature and industry, comprising 

 objects of natural history and all those objects and products 

 of mankind not primarily esthetic in character. While both 

 classes of museums afford ()p])ortunities for the would-be work- 

 er in anthropology, the latter is especially promising — for the 

 industrial development of the world is of never ending and 

 always increasing interest, and the human artifacts are sus- 

 ceptible of arrangement in series serving to satisfy the in- 

 stinctive desire to understand sequential development, and hence 

 meeting a large demand. 



