FUTURE SCOPE AND ARRANGEMENT OF EXHIBITIONS 



Briefly, these various objects may be summarized as follows: 



1. Closer relations with the system of Public Education. 



2. Extension of the exhibition system to pure science, as- 



tronomy, physics, geography, physical geography, ocean- 

 ography. 



3. Applications of science to public health, economic forestry, 



economic zoology, mines and mining. 



In the new Department of Public Health, for example, we should The Depart- 

 pursue the fine beginning which has been made and show the relation J}*", 1 ^ Pubhc 

 of the simpler forms of animal and plant life to germ and protozoan 

 diseases along the lines begun in the mosquito exhibit. 



In the Department of Woods and Forestry, we should display conservation, 

 the principles of conservation and teach the lessons of economy rather 

 than of waste in the natural resources of our country. 



In the pure sciences, astronomy has never found its way into any 

 natural history museum until the present admirable beginning made 

 in this institution, to the instruction and delight of thousands of visi- 

 tors. It is obvious from the laws of the unity of nature, taught by Astronomy. 

 Humboldt and Darwin, that all causes are ultimately astronomic and 

 physical. Certain temporary exhibits of solar, lunar and stellar 

 photographs from the Yerkes and other observatories have proved both 

 fascinating and instructive to the public. We already have the 

 promise of the superb photographs which are now being secured by 

 Professor Hale of the Carnegie Institution at Pasadena. These 

 display the evolution of worlds, the corona of the sun, the vortical 

 nature of the sun spots. Other astronomers in our observatories, 

 which now lead the world, will be glad to send us their latest negatives. 

 Displayed in a darkened room, with transmitted light, these negatives 

 give a perfect vision of the heavens as they appear through our largest 

 telescopes. Such an exhibition could be arranged at comparatively 

 small expense on the first floor of the new Rotunda. 



Similarly, in Physical Geography, we are promised the hearty physical 

 co-operation of Professor Davis of Harvard University, the leading Ge °8 ra P n y- 



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