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of encouraging science and art. Availing herself of the fifty thou- 
sand volumes and the hundreds of cases of natural history left by 
Hans Sloane, a native of Ireland, she founded the British ] 
Later in the century she spent half a million dollars on the 
Gallery, and has annually bestowed upon it a liberal al 
The South Kensington Museum, the National Portrait Gal 
the India Museum are all of comparatively recent origin, a. 
cost the Treasury millions for their foundation and support. Mu- 
seums of art have been opened in the provincial towns, supported in 
part by corporate, in part by private, and in part, indirectly, by Par- 
liamentary aid. The effect of Kensington and other training-schools 
upon the industry of England has been such that last year a leading 
French authority cried out that if France did not bestir herself, 
England would take from her the markets of the world, which the 
superior technic and taste of the French designers have monopolized 
for a century, or since the establishment of art schools throughout 
France. Parliament expended last year upon the science and art of 
England nearly $5,000,000, and upon science and art in Ireland 
nearly %'iQQ,QOO:'— Margaret F. StiUivan, in December Century 
Magazine. 
If comparisons were not " odorous," one might be drawn between 
the policy and action of the United States Government and that of 
Great Britain as set forth in the foregoing extract. 
The United States National Museum is the only institution sup- 
ported by the United States Government which stands as a repre- 
sentative of the British institutions mentioned above, and on which 
its Government has spent millions. 
The appropriations made by the United States Government 
for the National Museum are barely sufficient to keep it alive. 
They are provision for its daily running expenses, and barely 
adequate for that. What the museum, its contributors and corre- 
spondents, persons throughout the country interested in kindred 
scientific pursuits, and the public generally, have good right to 
complain of is that no provision is made in these appropriations for 
the purchase or securing of specimens, however great their value 
or importance, nor for the enlargement or increase of the collections. 
The Congress, it would seem, fails to comprehend the scope and 
purpose of the National Museum. It seems to consider it as a mere 
gathering of curiosities (maybe monstrosities) which may serve to 
amuse and interest for an afternoon a stray constituent who may 
have come in from the rural districts and seek attention at his 
Congressman's hands. The Congress at large seems not to know, or, 
if it does, ignores the fact that the National Museum is an extensive, 
and ought to be fully equipped, organization for the education of 
the people and for conducting investigations in science not possible 
to be done by private individuals. 
In other countries it would be liberally supported and generously 
sustained. With a geographic area larger than combined Europe the 
United States treats its science, especially its science of archaeology. 
