THE MUSEOLOGIST 



This little magazine is derated to the itdertial affairs of the Museum. It 

 exists for the sake of all the Museum workers, and offers itself as a ready 

 medium through which they may come into closer touch with each other and 

 ■with the Corporation. 



If is issued by the Publicity Committee. 



Volume I Au<2,ust, 1920 Number 3 



The June visit of the crippled children, which enlisted the 

 services of a large number of employees as guides, gave 

 prominence to the fact that few of us Museum folks have even 

 a casual general familiarity with the exhibits. How many 

 times, on the day of the children's visit, were heard varia- 

 tions of the remark: 'Til be glad to help all I can, but I 

 don't know anything about the exhibits!" 



Members of the several departments are in touch with 

 the displays in their own halls, naturally. But they seem 

 rarely to make a point of visiting the others. One employee 

 was delighted, while acting as guide, to discover a ''new 

 group" — the Timber Wolves! There are those who have 

 never visited the P^-gmy Group. And we venture to say that 

 very few indeed have yet seen the Bryozoan Group. 



There is nothing novel about the condition. It is the old 

 story of the New Yorker who has never visited the Statue of 

 Liberty or ascended the Woolworth Tower — although he has 

 made a great point of mounting the Washington Monument 

 and the Eiffel Tower, on his holiday trips. It is less a case 

 of acute indifference than of chronic inertia. "They're 

 always there; we can go any time." And here in the Museum 

 we air that other formula: "There 's so httle time, and so 



