called the new museum idea, namely, that the museum is 

 not a conservative but a Progressive educational force, that it 

 has a teaching quality or value peculiar to itself, that the 

 museum succeeds it it teaches, fails partially if it merely 

 amuses or interests people and fails entirely if it simply 

 mystifies." 



Henry Fairfield Osborn 



President 

 American Museum of Natural History 



