Museum Origins Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy

Museum Origins; Chapter 1 Geography, Strabo; Chapter 2 Rerum Rusticarum Libri Tres, Marcus TerentiusVarro; Chapter 3 The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632–1695, Described by Himself, Collected from his Diaries and Other Papers, AndrewClark; Chapter 4 My Design in Forming this Museum, CharlesWillson Peale; Chapter 5 The Mount Vernon Association, SaraAgnes, Rice], Pryor, RogerA. PryorMrs.; Chapter 6 A Word About Museums, EdwinLawrence Godkin; Chapter 7 The History of the Origin and Development of Museums, H[ermann]A[ugust] Hagen; Museum Philosophy; Chapter 8 An Address on the Practical Value of the American Museum, LuigiPalma di Cesnola; Chapter 9 Purposes and Aims of Modern Museums, FredericA. Lucas; Chapter 10 The Functions of Museums, PaulM. Rea; Chapter 11 War Museums, H[erbert]Bolton; Chapter 12 Museums and the People, ErwinH. Barbour; Chapter 13 State and Local Historical Societies, ReubenGold Thwaites; Chapter 14 On the Ideal Relations of Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery to the City, OliverC. Farrington; Chapter 15 The Art Museum and the Public, Mariana Alley[Griswold], VanRensselaer, SchuylerVan RensselaerMrs.; Chapter 16 English Art Connoisseurship and Collecting, SirJ[ohn], C[harles]Robinson; The New Museum; Chapter 17 The Use and Abuse of Museums, W. StanleyJevons; Chapter 18 The Relationships and Responsibilities of Museums, G[eorge]Brown Goode; Chapter 19 Modern Museums: Presidential Address to the Museums Association at the Meeting in London, 3rd July 1893, WilliamHenry Flower; Chapter 20 Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method, BenjaminIves Gilman; Chapter 21 The New Museum, JohnCotton Dana; Chapter 22 The Museum Conscience, JosephGrinnell; Chapter 23 Museum Ethics, L. EarleRowe; Museum Education; Chapter 24 The Children’s Museum as an Educator, AnnaBillings Gallup; Chapter 25 The Relation of the Museum to the Schools, Carolyn[Morse] Rea, PaulM. ReaMrs.; Chapter 26 If Public Libraries, Why Not Public Museums?, EdwardS. Morse; Chapter 27 The Museum in Educational Work, FrederickStarr; Chapter 28 The Museum, the Original Exponent of Visual Education, FrankC. Baker; Chapter 29 The Function of the Museum Instructor, ElizabethM[anning Gardiner] Whitmore; Chapter 30 Museums and Other Classified Collections as Instruments of Education in Natural Science, HenryScadding; Chapter 31 The Place of Museums in Education, ThomasGreenwood; Chapter 32 The Museum’s Part in the Making of Americans, Laura W[oolsey]L[ord] Scales; Chapter 33 The Museum’s Educational Credo, WinifredE. Howe; Museum Exhibition; Chapter 34 Museum for the People, AlfredRussel Wallace; Chapter 35 The Improvements Effected in Modern Museums of Europe and Australia, [Johann Ludwig]Gerard Krefft, John EdwardGray; Chapter 36 The Dulness of Museums, JohnGeorge Wood; Chapter 37 The Anthropological Exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, GeorgeA. Dorsey; Chapter 38 Some Principles of Museum Administration, FranzBoas; Chapter 39 Modern Exhibitional Tendencies of Museums of Natural History and Ethnology Designed for Public Use, HenryL. Ward; Museums and Universities; Chapter 40 On the Educational Uses of Museums, EdwardForbes; Chapter 41 The Social Museum as an Instrument of University Teaching, FrancisG. Peabody; Chapter 42 The Relation of the Art Museum to a University, EdwardW. Forbes; Chapter 43 Training Museum Workers, HomerR. Dill; Chapter 44 Museums and Their Purpose, N[ewton]H. Winchell; Philosophy of Museums with Living Collections; Chapter 45 Botanical Gardens, NathanielLord Britton; Chapter 46 The Missouri Botanical Garden, WilliamTrelease; Chapter 47 The Arnold Arboretum: What it is and Does, CharlesSprague Sargent; Chapter 48 Zoological Gardens, A Critical Essay, TheodoreLink; Chapter 49 The Making of A Zoological-Park Masterpiece, WilliamT. Hornaday; Chapter 50 Administration of the Public Aquarium, CharlesH. Townsend;

Biography

Hugh H. Genowaysand, Mary Anne Andrei