Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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77//; Mi'srjM OF Tin: irrrni: 225 cannot he jjiven in lK)()ks, in classrooms or in lalxtratorics. Tliis is a luaiuli of public e(lucjitioi\ wliicli is especially urjjent in a fjreat city, crowded with the works of man, and where e\ce))t for the nightly vision of the heavens obscured hy smoke an<l dust, and the altered wild life of our parks, the works of Nature are totally destroxcd. Our future ideal for the Museum is to pro\ idi' at no cost a little journey on this planet and amonjj the heavens beyond it. Our ideal of nuiscum order is to pass, by a natural and easily seen sequence, from country to coimtry as you would in travel, or from age to age in the past history of the earth, or from lower to higher stages of life in the history of animals and plants. This is w liat we are working toward although it is by no means attained. We propose to adfl astronomy, and geography of the land and of the sea to the older and traditional subjects of the museum. Already the child can see here what Aristotle dreamt of but never saw, and what Darwin and Huxley put into prophecy but did not live to see. AVe want the teachers of New ^()rk to feel that this Museum is part of their educational plant, we want their cooperation, their suggestions, and their fre(;iient presence.
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