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itself felt effectively in this regard the museum would be pro- 

 tected from many errors and dangers and would be aided 

 in its work. 



Wm. A. Hornaday at the "Founder's Day" of the Carnegie 

 Institution, in Pittsburg, last year said the function of the 

 museum is "to furnish food for thought, to expand the human 

 mind, and to illuminate the soul.'' 



Morris K. Jesup said at the American Museum of Natural 

 History of New York, "I believe the museum to be to-day one 

 of the most effective agencies which exist for furnishing edu- 

 cation and innocent amusement and instruction to the public." 



This should be true of the State Museum, and will become 

 increasingly so as the museum is enabled to do some explor- 

 ing in fields not already occupied, to do some collecting, to 

 care for the results of the work of different scientific depart- 

 ments of the State, to preserve vanishing natural history data, 

 and to properly exhibit materials which show our natural 

 resources and their well-marked boimds. 



