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SCIENCE 



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of the college, and to compete successfully with 

 the larger universities. 



Finally, it is the belief of your committee that 

 there are an increasing number of men and women 

 graduating from our colleges who are not fitted 

 or who do not wish to devote themselves to the 

 longer and profounder study and original research 

 required for the doctor 's degree, but who do desire 

 to pursue further their college studies in some 

 chosen direction and who might do so with great 

 profit to themselves and to the community; espe- 

 cially is this true of those young men and women 

 who intend to teach in the elementary and sec- 

 ondary schools and of those students who are about 

 to enter our theological seminaries. Moreover, it 

 is our belief that a few men in each year's gradu- 

 ating class at Rutgers belong to this group and 

 should be encouraged to study at Eutgers for the 

 higher degree. We have already three fellowships 

 for whose administration we are responsible and 

 we should no doubt be glad to receive further 

 endowments of this sort. 



Hence it seems to us both fitting and progressive 

 that Eutgers College should seek to solve, for itself 

 ■at least, this rather puzzling academic problem. 



We recommend: 



iFirst, that the master's degree be regarded by 

 tlie faculty of Eutgers College as a degree to be 

 given after extended liberal study and not, as in 

 the case of the doctor's degree, after intense appli- 

 cation to one subject and to original research; 



Secondly, that the studies pursued by the can- 

 didate for this degree constitute a distinct course 

 by themselves as they would if he were studying 

 law or divinity; 



Thirdly, that this course consist of three sub- 

 jects to be pursued by the student for two years, 

 ordinarily in residence at Eutgers; equivalent 

 graduate courses pursued at another institution 

 may, however, be substituted for the first year's 

 requirements ; 



Fourthly, that the character of such studies 

 shall not differ essentially from that of the elective 

 courses now widely offered to seniors in our col- 

 leges; in other words, that their character should 

 be elementary and liberal; 



Fifthly, that no student graduating from Eut- 

 gers College after 1912 be granted the master's 

 ■degree on the basis of the present requirements. 



Submitted to the faculty April 19, 1911. 

 Austin Scott, 

 J. VoLNEY Lewis, 

 Walter T. Mabvin, 



Committee 



MUSEUM BUILDINGS IN THE- UNITED 

 STATES 



The -writer has recently taken occasion to 

 tabulate some statistics on museum buildings 

 in the United States. The data were taken 

 from the Directory of American Museums 

 published two years ago by the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural History. Table I. shows the source 

 of the money with which museum buildings 

 were erected. Table II. shows the years, by 

 decades, the money was given or appropriated 

 for museum buildings. Table III. shows the 

 distribution of museum buildings in five 

 groups of states. A map which was also pre- 

 pared shows the location of the buildings. 

 While the data given in the Buffalo publica- 

 tion are quite complete, it is evident that no 

 tables like these can be perfectly accurate. 

 They are, nevertheless, very instructive. 



TABLE I 



Number of Amounts 



Decades MuBeums Received 



1840-1849 1 $ 20,000 



1850-1859 2 34,000 



1860-1869 6 1,277,000 



1870-1879 7 6,030,000 



1880-1889 5 560,000 



1890-1899 20 9,866,000 



1900-1909 21 14,224,000 



Unknown 5,221,000 



TABLE II 



Number of Amounts 



Sources of Funds Museums Received 



Private donations 36 $18,958,000 



Universities (indirectly some 



states) 15 1,382,000 



Cities 10 8,599,000 



State and national governments 3 7,350,000 



Other sources 1 943,000 



TABLE III 



Number of Cost of 



Groups of States Museums Buildings 



Middle Atlantic States (6) ... 16 $17,478,000 



North Central States (15) 16 8,466,000 



New England States (6) 19 4,910,000 



District of Columbia 2 4,400,000 



Eoeky Mountain and Pacific 



States (11) 10 1,836,000 



Southern States 2 142,000 



It is evident that the growth of our mu- 

 seums is largely parallel with the growth of 



