The Research Programme 
The Museum inherited from the Geological Survey a sound 
policy of original research based on field work. The research pro- 
gramme of the Museum, like that of the Survey, has fluctuated 
between periods of expansion and recession; probably the recessions 
for the Museum were more extreme because of the supposedly less 
Fig. 9. Edward Sapir (1884-1939). Chief Anthropologist of the Museum, 
1910-1925, and one of the world's great authorities on linguistics. 
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