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This classification is not entirely satisfactory, since it is 
based upon methods of arrangement, rather than upon the 
nature of the objects to be arranged, and since it leaves in 
a middle territory (only partially occupied by the English 
museum men of either department), a great mass of 
museum material, of the greatest moment, both in regard 
to its interest and its adaptability for purposes of public 
instruction. 
On the one side stand the natural-history collections, 
undoubtedly best to be administered by the geologist, 
botanist, and zoologist. On the other side are the fine-art 
collections, best to be arranged, from an aesthetic stand- 
point, by artists. Between is a territory which no English 
word can adequately describe — which the Germans call 
Cultiirgeschichte — the natural history of civilization, of man 
and his ideas and achievements. The museums of science 
and art have not yet learned how to partition this territory. 
An exact classification of museums is not at present 
practicable, nor will it be until there has been some redis- 
tribution of the collections which they contain. It may be 
instructive, however, to pass in review the principal 
museums of the world, indicating briefly their chief charac- 
teristics. 
Every great nation has its museum of natural history. 
The Natural History Department of the British Museum, 
recently removed from the heart of London to palatial 
quarters in South Kensington, is probably the most exten- 
sive, — with its three great divisions. Zoological, Botanical, 
and Geological. 
The historian and the naturalist have met upon common 
ground in the field of anthropology. The anthropologist is, 
in most cases, historian as well as naturalist ; while the his- 
torian of to-day is always in some degree an anthropologist, 
and makes use of many of the methods at one time peculiar 
to the natural sciences. The museum is no less essential to 
the study of anthropology than to that of natural history. 
The library formerly afforded to the historian all necessary 
opportunities for work. It would seem from the wording 
