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ers of their own initiative and without appropriation, 

 resulted in 1925 in the building, by a special commit- 

 tee of the American Association of Museums, of an 

 admirable modern museum in Yosemite National 

 Park. This will have achieved its purpose when it 

 inspires Congress to erect museums of equal quality 

 throughout the system. 



Another long step forward was the designing, 

 by Dr. John C. Merriam in 1926, and erecting on 

 the brink of Yavapai Point in 1928, an exhibit to 

 interpret the story of the progress of life disclosed 

 in the Grand Canyon. Striding far forward in out- 

 door education, destined to inform and inspire all 

 future methods under which our Super-University 

 of Nature will be developed, the exhibit at Yavapai 

 Point appropriately represents a wide co-operation. 

 Planned under the National Parks Association's Ad- 

 visory Board on Educational and Inspirational Uses 

 of National Parks and constructed by a special com- 

 mittee of the National Academy of Sciences, it was 

 appropriately housed by the same committee of the 

 American Association of Museums which built the 

 Yosemite Museum. The same committee also plans 

 similar buildings in Yellowstone and elsewhere. 



Still another long stride forward was the ap- 

 pointment by Secretary Work of five educational ad- 

 visers to visit the Parks under a Rockefeller appro- 

 priation and make individual suggestions to Director 

 Mather. 



