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up. The attributions appear in the main to be accurate, but they are 
not to be employed in the settlement of moot points of provenience. 
Of three pieces in the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, two were collected by Dr. Reginald Spear, United States 
Navy, one by Allen Irwin. The greatest trust may be reposed in both 
these collectors. 
It is not now so very long that museum direction has become a sci- 
ence, with its systems of record and display. Formerly a museum was a 
mere collection of curiosities in cases for idle visitors to gaze upon. 
Dating from that not very remote epoch, some of these specimens 
carry yet the evidence that they had been varnished to look well. 
Many others are in the museum merely because they came into the 
museum; no record was preserved of their source or collector. Itisa 
great thing that they have been preserved at all. In the present study 
their provenience has been carefully examined. 
