descriptive labels for the information of the visitors. 

 A necessarily restricted outline of the exhibition mate- 

 rial in the Museum follows: 



Stanley Field Hall, which occupies the nave of the 

 building, contains representative exhibits from each of 

 the departments of the Museum. These exhibits are 

 intended to give a general glimpse of the activities of 

 the institution as a whole, and to serve as an intro- 

 duction to the systematic collections in the exhibition 

 halls. The visitor, on entering the Museum, finds him- 

 self at the north end of this hall, and from here it is 

 easy to find his way to any of the other halls. 



ANTHROPOLOGY 



Few sciences are of more absorbing interest than 

 that of Anthropology. To trace the evolution of man, 

 from the dim ages of the past, when he was scarcely 

 more responsible than the beast, fumbling and groping 

 his way onward through the darkness, now making 

 good progress, now halting, but ever struggling blindly 

 onwards, is an education in itself. The rate of develop- 

 ment has proceeded unequally, in wave-like formation. 

 It is therefore possible at the present time to meet man 

 in most of the various phases of development. Even 

 on our own continent men living under conditions that 

 obtained in the stone age may be met in some of the 

 remote districts. The exhibits in this Department are 

 intended to show the various stages of evolution in 

 which the various races of the world are to be found ; 

 the degree of culture and enlightenment to which they 

 have attained; and to show, from their past history, 

 the path they trod to reach that stage. 



Entering the Mary D. Sturges Hall immediately 

 to the east of the nave, we find ourselves among the 



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