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also probable that some of the boys may be sufficiently interested 

 in the work to render valuable laid in collecting and preparing 

 specimens. 



If ethnographical, archaeological, historical, or art collections 

 be also part of the general museum scheme, they should be 

 kept quite distinct from the natural history collections, 

 preferably in another room. 



Above all things, let the following words of Agassiz be 

 remembered : " The value of a museum does not consist so 

 much in the number as in the order and arrangement of the 

 specimens contained in it." 



