Excerpt from The American Museum of Natural History: Its Origin, Its History, the Growth of Its Departments, to December 81, 1909 There are no models in this country or abroad to follow. Let us make our own model and set our own standard of a public educational institution and home of science in every branch of nature. The plan outlined in this Report is not a crystal. It is a growing thing to be developed and improved under criticism and suggestion and with the advance of science and discovery. But it is well to have a ...
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Excerpt from The American Museum of Natural History: Its Origin, Its History, the Growth of Its Departments, to December 81, 1909 There are no models in this country or abroad to follow. Let us make our own model and set our own standard of a public educational institution and home of science in every branch of nature. The plan outlined in this Report is not a crystal. It is a growing thing to be developed and improved under criticism and suggestion and with the advance of science and discovery. But it is well to have a clear vision ahead for the next two or three decades at least, so that everything which may be done now will finally fit into its place as part of a continuous scheme, with an arrangement and sequence of the whole designed to give as clear an impression to the public as is given in each of the single exhibits of the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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