Excerpt from The Educational Aspect of the United States National Museum On the other hand men equally as learned say What is the use Of writing books for nobody to read? If you stir up a love for these things in the public, will they not fill your mill with grist, build your cases for your study series and give you money to perfect your work? And so the battle has been fought for you while you were being born and nourished, and the public are now freely invited to share the joy of the naturalist. In the field of natural history the students of Johns Hopkins University do not need to be told by me that human ingenuity has exhausted itself to devise ways of showing to the eye the processes Of nature by means of pictures, microphotographs, dried and alcoholic Specimens, casts, and models in wax, paper or plaster. The ontogeny of many species, the classification, the variations, the result of all the forces which combined constitute environment, comparative anatomy and evolution of form, are beautifully set up in our great collections, attractive as works of art and admired by all lovers of nature. Now all this has been the growth of years. I shall not dwell upon it. Indeed I only mention the subject to introduce what I may have to say to you upon the National Museum in its rela tion to natural history of man and the connection of this method of study with the pursuit of human history. To my thinking, anthropology is the application of all the methods of natural history to the study of man, of his anatomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.