ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME IV.. NO. i. 



Editorial Notes. 



The task of completing the great edifice of the new Carnegie Library 

 and Institute at the entrance of Schenley Park is gradually nearing 

 the end. The building is the largest structure devoted to similar 

 uses in North America and covers a larger area than any other build- 

 ing of like character which has as yet been erected in the new world. 

 The decoration of the walls and the permanent installation of appa- 

 ratus for lighting and heating are rapidly going forward. In August 

 it began to be possible for the management of the Museum to begin 

 to transfer its contents to the various rooms which they are hereafter 

 to occupy. A great deal had been in storage. The moving -of the 

 cases, their renovation, the cleaning and rearrangement of their con- 

 tents, the orderly arrangement and classification of collections which 

 had long been inaccessible, the mounting by the taxidermists of 

 specimens which hitherto it had been impossible to mount for lack of 

 room, all of these things involve an expenditure of effort which is 

 taxing the time and strength of the working force of the Museum to 

 the uttermost. It has been determined to formally dedicate the 

 building upon the nth of April, 1907. To bring the great halls and 

 the accumulated treasures of the Museum into something like the 

 shape which it is intended they shall ultimately have, is a task which 

 in the limited time at the command of the working force is little less 

 than herculean. The director of one of the leading Museums of 

 America, upon the occasion of a recent visit to the institution ex- 



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