It is the function of the museum to collect and arrange ex- 

 hibits in such a manner as they be of ready use to the student 

 and the inquiring visitor seeking information on scientific mat- 

 ters. 



This has been successfully perfect after eight years of prac- 

 tice by the Institution on Museum Hill. The inspiring panorama 

 of the mountains about it prepares the mind more readily 

 to receive the messaa:e contained in the great Museum 

 buildings, themselves a living lesson in architecture. Besides its 

 unequalled division of conchology, the rare collections of butter- 

 flies, birds, eggs and art objects, the history of evolutionary 



Hall of Archaeology 



human culture is attractively illustrated by the implements, 

 weapons and utensils of primitive man in the Southwest. 



The principal function of the Southwest Museum is to live 

 up to its name, as the depository of all that which is associated 

 with the footsteps of man in this favored region. 



To show the history of modern man and the links uniting 

 it to prehistory and aboriginal culture is the principal aim of 

 that Institution. 



The constant aim of its staiT is to give positive information 

 upon scientific facts. — which are nothing more or less than nat- 

 ural laws capable of being demonstrated and visualized, leaving 

 theories and hypotheses to others. 



The logical idea of popularizing science, divesting it of al/ 

 its forbidding technicalities, so feared by the laity desirous of 

 learning, has resultcl for the year 1917 in a matriculated body 

 of 318 students. The educational service has further been 

 brought to the use of the schools, through the Norman Bridge 

 Museum Kxtension. which was of service to 3500 pupils of all 

 grades, and is now being extended to the Public Library and its 

 branches. 



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