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iety had been felt by his friends lest his 

 voice would fail to fill the theatre, for it had 

 signally failed during the Romanes Lecture 

 delivered in Oxford the year before, but when 

 Huxley arose he reminded you of a venera- 

 ble gladiator returning to the arena after 

 years of absence. He raised his figure and 

 his voice to its full height, and, with one foot 

 turned over the edge of the step,veiled an un- 

 mistakable and vigorous protest in the most 

 gracious and dignified speech of thanks. 



Throughout the subsequent special ses- 

 sions of this meeting Huxley could not ap- 

 pear. He gave the impression of being 

 aged, but not infirm, and no one realized 

 that he had spoken his last word as cham- 

 pion of the law of Evolution. He soon re- 

 turned to Eastbourne. Early in the winter 

 he contracted the grippe, which passed into 

 pneumonia. He rallied once or twice, and 

 his last effort to complete a reply to Bal- 

 four's ' Foundations of Belief ' hastened his 

 death, which came upon June 29th, at the 

 age of seventy. 



I have endeavored to show in how many 

 ways Huxley was a model for us of the 

 younger generation. In the central hall of 

 the British Museum of Natural History sits 

 in marble the life-size figure of Charles 

 Darwin ; upon his right will soon be placed 

 a beautiful statue of Richard Owen, and I 

 know that there are many who will enjoy 

 taking some share in the movement to com- 

 plete this group with the noble figure of 

 Thomas Henry Huxley. 



Henry F. Osboen. 

 Columbia College. 



ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF 3IUSEVMS.* 

 Museums may best be classified in two 

 ways; by the character of their contents, 



* From a paper on ' The Principles of Museum 

 Administration, ' read at the meeting of the Museums 

 Association at Newcastle- on-Tyne, England, July 23, 

 1895. This portion of the paper, in modified form, 

 was read before the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington, January 18, 1896, 



and by the purposes for which they are 

 founded.* 



Under the first category they may be 

 grouped as follows: 



A. Museums of Art. 



B. Historical Museums. 



C. Anthropological Museums. 



D. Natural History Museums. 



E. Technological Museums. 



F. Commercial Museums. 



Under the second category they may be 

 classed as 



G. National Museums. 



H. Local, Provincial or City Museums. 

 I. College and School Museums. 

 J. Professional or Class Museums. 

 K. Museums or Cabinets for special research 

 owned by societies or individuals. 



A. Art Museums. 



1. The Museum of Art is a depository for 

 the aesthetic products of man's creative 

 genius, such as paintings, sculptures, archi- 

 tecture (so far as it can be shown by 

 models, drawings and structural fragments) 

 and specimens of the illustrative arts (such 

 as engravings) and illustrations of the ap- 

 plication of art to decorative uses. 



2. The greater art collections illustrate, 

 in a manner peculiarly their own, not only 

 the successive phases in the intellectual 

 progress of the civilized races of man, their 

 sentiments, passions and morals, but also 

 their habits and customs, their dress, im- 

 plements and the minor accessories of their 

 culture often not otherwise recorded. 



3. Museums of art, wherever they may 

 be situated, have a certain general similar- 

 ity to each other in purpose, contents and 

 method of management. Those which most 

 fully represent the art of the communities 



*In the references to special museums nothing 

 has been further from my idea than to cata- 

 logue existing museums. Many of the most im- 

 portant are not even referred to by name. I have 

 spoken only of those which are especially familiar to 

 myself and which seem best to illustrate the idea in 

 connection with which they are named. 



