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In our own museum we are to a large extent free from this 

 difficulty because the series of specimens are much smaller, and 

 in most cases possess a local interest. But even here the material 

 is to be so arranged that each object will provide its own excuse 

 at once ; it will take time and hard work to place, our museum 

 at the acme of its usefulness. Progress is the world's watchword 

 just now; and there is no branch of knowledge in which progres- 

 sive methods and modern ideals are more important than in the 

 management of a public museum. 



