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Tlu'V :iif null wlio arc ready i(» reply In ridieiile ni- (pies- 

 tioninii. as «ii<l tlic astronomer \u flie (|iiery. why lie was 

 <'X|)eii(liiii: so nmeli time, money and troulde, in entleavor- 

 in«r to ivetity his eomjiutatioii <il the distance from the sun 

 to the eartli. — ' licc-auso 1 want to know." 



Those men are the advance uuard of science, tiie |»i(ineers, 

 tile ori,ii;inal iiive<tii:at(>r^. the sa|>|)crs and miner- nf the 

 scii'ntitie army. 



All lioiKM- to those who have thus wrouuht. and aic now 

 ■\voikinii amid t<»rrid heat and arctic c(.)ld. who have tlis- 

 covered the s(»iirces of the Nile, or sou;j:lit the o)»en I'olar 

 ►Sea. not a few of whom ha\e sacrili<'e<l their live- to their 

 lahors. 



Ihit these facts must he interrogated, made to till their 

 story, ami that the true one, or they are of hut little worth, 

 and the Mu.^eum is little more than an '"0101 Curicsity JShoi),' 

 a museum instead of a museum. 



It has heen said that '' tifrures cannot lie." Hut 1 think 

 few would admit the truth of that saying, on the eve of a 

 ])oj)ular election, as they read the opposing papers. 



1 think there have been even scientific discussions, in 

 Mliicli the same facts were made to tell very ditterent stories. 



A master mind, capable of classifying and generalizing is 

 needed to mar-hal these facts, to make them speak, to make 

 them tell the truth. 



•lust as in this Muscuni we are beginning to see how 

 order can be evolved out of confusion, and lio|>e eventually 

 to .see cla.ssified and j>roj>erly labeled facts on these shelves, 

 telling us the story of man. hi- enviroimieiit. .md his 

 a( hievemcMits. 



l*'or while to one ni.nn a fad may l)e an iiltimaie thing. 



• .\ priinro^i.- on tin; ri\er> l)iin) 

 .\ sin»|i!c primrose is to liim." 



to another it sugge.sts j)roblems, iiuiuiries. investigations. 



Whatever progre>s has been made in science has been 

 mainly due to the persistent asking of three (|Uestions: 

 •'What?" "How?" "Why?" and to theecpially pei-sistent at- 

 tempt to answer them. 



