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functions are performed by the library. In the library may 
be found descriptive catalogues of all the great museums, 
and books by the hundred copiously illustrated with pic- 
tures of the objects preserved in museums. A person 
trained to use books may by their aid reap the advantage 
of many museums without the necessity of a visit to one. 
The exhibition series would be proportionately larger in 
an historical than in a natural-history museum. The study 
series of a historical museum would mostly be arranged in 
the form of a library, except in some special departments, 
such as numismatics, and when a library is near might be 
entirely dispensed with. 
The adoption of museum methods would be of advan- 
tage to the historian in still another way, by encouraging 
the preservation of historical material not at present sought 
for by librarians, and by inducing present owners of such 
material to place it on exhibition in public museums. 
Although there is not in existence a general museum of 
history arranged on the comprehensive plan adopted by 
natural-history museums, there are still many historical col- 
lections of limited scope, which are all that could be asked, 
and more. 
The value to the historian of archaeological collections, 
historic and pre-historic, has long been understood. The 
museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome need no com- 
ment. In Cambridge, New York, and Washington are im- 
mense collections of the remains of man in America in the 
pre-Columbian period, — collections which are yearly growing 
in significance, as they are made the subject of investigation, 
and there is an immense amount of material of this kind 
in the hands of institutions and private collectors in all 
parts of the United States. 
The museum at Naples shows, so far as a museum can, 
the history of Pompeii at one period. The museum of St. 
Germain, near Paris, exhibits the history of France in the 
time of the Gauls and of the Roman occupation. In 
Switzerland, especially at Neuchatel, the history of the 
inhabitants of the Lake Dwellings is shown. 
