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museums. It is generally recognized that the field 

 for special museums in our large cities is extend- 

 ing rapidly, not only in the more familiar forms 

 of museums of art, history and science, but in the 

 newer form of industrial, commercial, technolog- 

 ical and social museums. It is also recognized 

 that the field of the general museum as a center, 

 not only of education, but of civic and social 

 movements in smaller communities is only begin- 

 ning to be appreciated. These smaller institutions 

 differ in many ways from those of the larger 

 museums of more limited scope, and they feel the 

 need of organized assistance from the association. 



Taken as a whole, the papers and discussion at 

 recent meetings indicate a desire that the associa- 

 tion shall formulate a digest or compendium of 

 museum practise which may be used as a guide by 

 the smaller museums. The Directory of Museums, 

 published for the association in 1910, was designed 

 to afford a part of the data for such studies, and 

 more recent statistics on some of the points cov- 

 ered by that work will be available in the forth- 

 coming report of the United States Commissioner 

 of Education, which will include, for the first time, 

 a section on museums. 



The following papers were read at the meeting 

 and will be published in full in the Froceedings: 



' ' Industrial Museums for American Cities, ' ' 

 Franklin W. Hooper, The Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



' ' A Group Showing Animals of the Wharf 

 Piles," Boy W. Miner, The American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York. 



' ' Meteorite Collecting and Collections, ' ' Oliver 

 C. Farrington, Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago. 



' ' A Method of Mounting Wet Specimens Show 

 ing their Natural Environment," Charles F. Sil 

 vester. Museum of Princeton University, Prince 

 ton, N. J. 



"Use of Museum Resources in Public Instruc 

 tion, ' ' Witmer Stone and Stewardson Brown 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



"Observations in European Museums of Art,' 

 Benjamin Ives Gilman, Museum of Fine ArtS; 

 Boston. 



"Museum Work at the Capital of Canada,' 

 Harlan I. Smith, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ot 

 tawa, Canada. 



' ' Museum of the Ohio State Archeological and 

 Historical Society," William C. Mills, Ohio State 

 Archeological and Historical Society, Columbus, O. 



' ' Ichthyological Explorations in Colombia, ' ' C. 

 H. Eigenmann, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



' ' Why this Association should Promote Museum 

 Extension Work, " W. B. Ashley. 



' ' The Museums and the Boy Scouts, ' ' Charles 

 Louis Pollard, Staten Island Association of Arts 

 and Sciences, New Brighton, N. Y. 



' ' Museum Work for the Boy Scouts, ' ' William 

 L. Fisher, The Philadelphia Museums, Philadel- 

 phia. 



' ' Insurance, Eetiring Allowances and Pensions 

 for Museum Men, " M. J. Greenman, Wistar Insti- 

 tute of Anatomy, Philadelphia. 



' ' Needless Regulations in Museums, " A. E. 

 Crook, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 111. 



' ' The Functions of Museums and the Question 

 of Special Exhibitions, ' ' Frederic A. Lucas, Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New York. 



' ' The Museum Point of View in Botany, ' ' Ed- 

 ward L. Morris, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



"The Molding and Casting of Mushrooms and 

 other Plants," Antonio Miranda, Museum of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. 



"A Celestial Sphere — An Apparatus Installed 

 to Promote Interest in Astronomy, ' ' W. W. At- 

 wood, Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago. 



' ' The Deutsches Museum at Munich, ' ' Charles 

 E. Toothaker, The Philadelphia Museums, Phila- 

 delphia. 



' ' Legislation in tlie Interest of the Ohio State 

 Museum," William C. Mills, Ohio State Arche- 

 ological and Historical Society, Columbus, O. 



The following officers were elected for the en- 

 suing year: 



President — Benjamin Ives Gilman, secretary of 

 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 



Fiist Vice-president — Oliver C. Farrington, cu- 

 rator of geology. Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, Chicago. 



Second Vice-president — Arthur HoUiek, curator 

 of fossil botany. New York Botanical Garden, 

 New York. 



Secretary — Paul M. Eea, director. The Charles- 

 ton Museum, Charleston, S. C. 



Treasxirer — W. P. Wilson, director. The Phila- 

 delphia Museums, Philadelphia. 



Councilors (1913-16) — Henry L. Ward, director, 

 Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Mil- 

 waukee; Edward K. Putnam, director, Davenport 

 Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa. 



The association selected Milwaukee as the meet- 

 ing place for 1914. 



Padl M. Eea, 



Secretary 



