THE MUSEOLOGIST 



This little niiujazine is devoted to the inter ndl (ij)'<rirs of the M useum. 1 1 

 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. 



It is issued by the Publicity Committee. 



Volume 2 October, 1921 Number 6 



For several years an experiment in group insurance for 

 Museum employees has loomed vaguely on the horizon of 

 possibilities. Lately, at the suggestion of one of the Pension 

 Board officers, a Committee on Group Insurance was ap- 

 pointed, and the subject was rather extensively investigated. 

 The Committee has not yet made a final report and recom- 

 mendation, but the feeUng of the members is that decided 

 advantages would result from the taking out of group insur- 

 ance for our employees from an established commercial 

 insurance company. 



In the first place, the payment of a very small sum 

 monthly would cover each participant with incontestable life 

 insurance with permanent disability provisions, which, ex- 

 cept in a very few cases, would greatly exceed the corre- 

 sponding insurance at present afforded by the Pension Fund. 

 In the second place, the suspension of life and disabihty 

 insurance risk to the Pension Fund, consequent on the taking 

 out of these forms of insurance through an extra-Museum 

 agency, should make possible the liberalization of the pen- 

 sion plan in the matters of retirement allowances and re- 

 quirements. Possibly, also, the Pension Fund contributions 

 of employees leaving the service of the institution might be 

 returned with interest at 4%, instead of 3%, or with com- 



