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in a clear way all that the ordinary student wishes to know. 
The growing attention being paid by museums to their labeling 
is indicative of their clearer grasp of their proper mission as 
educational institutions. 
The effect on the exhibitions of the halls in which they are 
contained brings up the question of museum architecture, but 
this is such a special subject replete with technical details that 
it can not be taken up here except to repeat the warning of a 
former director of the Natural History department of the Brit¬ 
ish Museum: “Beware of the great architect!” an expression 
that finds a responsive echo in the brain of nearly every museum 
director in the world, for most museums occupy architects* 
buildings which differ mainly in their degrees of inappropriate¬ 
ness. 
Museums have entered on a period of accelerated evolution, 
and are rapidly forging ahead to their proper position on the 
crest of the wave of popular education and culture that is sweep¬ 
ing over all civilized nations. The subject is one that should 
interest us all, and although I have purposely limited this essay 
to but one of the various phases of museum activities,—exhibi¬ 
tion, and have necessarily treated that very superficially, I trust 
that I have succeeded in indicating the general trend of such 
institutions as belong to the restricted class under consideration. 
1. The Anthropological Exhibits at the American Museum of 
Natural History. 
George A. Dorsey, Science N. S. Vol XXV, pps. 584- 
589. 
The Anthropological Exhibits in the American Museum of 
Natural History. 
Henry L. Ward, Science N. S'. Vol XXV, pps. 745-746, 
Some Principles of Museum Administration, 
Eranz Boas, Science N. S. Vol. XXV, pps. 921-933. 
