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obtained a large amount of valuable material. Itis now proposed to 
erect a building for the purpose of accomodating the collection. To 
this proposition it may be objected that we have already in Philadel- 
phia a sufficient number of buildings adapted to museum purposes, so 
that to erect a new building is to divert money from a more important 
object, viz., that of securing the care of the specimens, and their use as 
means of scientific research. The expenditure of money for museum 
buildings has secured enough space and shelter for the materials of 
research and for the investigators for a long time to come, so that the 
endowment of scientific research should now claim attention. An 
appropriation for this purpose would be of more utility than any other 
that can now be made, for it has been a necessity in the community for 
a long time. Scientific results can not be expected without pro- 
vision for investigators, and this is lacking in almost all our insti- 
tutions. 
—Two prizes have been offered by a member of the Anthropolog- 
ical Society of Washington for first and second essays which shall 
contain a definition of the “ Most useful citizen of the United States 
regardless of occupation.” In our next number we will give the de- 
tails of the plan in full. Such a definition may be summed up ina 
few words, or it may cover the fields of social and political science. 
We shall look with much interest to the responses which this offer 
shall bring out. Men’s ideas of the highest utility are various, and, 
they differ as wellin regard to utility in detail. Many persons possess 
a bias in favor of their own pursuits, which is natural. So far as this 
project encourages thought, and stimulates serious endeavor, it will be 
_itself of no small utility. 
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course such as are designed for the use of our Editors of departments. 
This course expedites their reception and acknowledgement at all 
times; and when we change publishers as we occasionally do, such 
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