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Christy collection in the British Museum being the only 
one specially devoted to ethnography, unless we include 
also the local Blackmore Museum at Salisbury. 
In the United States the principal establishment arranged 
on the ethnographic plan is the Peabody Museum of 
Archaeology in Cambridge, and there are important smaller 
collections in the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York and the Peabody Academy of Sciences at 
Salem. 
The ethnological collections in Washington are classified 
on a double system : in one of its features corresponding 
to that of the European ; in the other like the famous 
Pitt-Rivers collection at Oxford, arranged to show the 
evolution of culture and civilization without regard to race. 
This broader plan admits much material excluded by the 
advocates of ethnographic museums, who devote their at- 
tention almost exclusively to the primitive or non-European 
peoples. 
In close relation to the ethnographic museums are those 
which are devoted to some special field of human thought 
and interest. Most remarkable among these probably is 
the Musee Guimet, recently removed from Lyons to Paris, 
which is intended to illustrate the history of religious 
ceremonial among all races of men. 
Other good examples of this class are some of those in 
Paris, such as the Mus^e de Marine, which shows not only 
the development of the merchant and naval marines of the 
country, but also, by trophies and other historical souvenirs, 
the history of the naval battles of the nation. 
The Mus^e d’ Artillerie does for war, but less thoroughly, 
what the Marine Museum does in its own department, and 
there are similar museums in other countries. 
Historical museums are manifold in character, and of 
necessity local in interest. Some relate to the history of 
provinces or cities. One of the oldest and best of these 
is the Markisch Provinzial Museum in Berlin. Many his- 
torical societies have collections of this character. 
There are museums which illustrate the history of par- 
