The Museum Rapidly Growing

THE MUSEUM RAPIDLY GROWING FIFTY NEW SOUTH AMERICAN BIRDS MOUNTED.

Increased Demend For Space Puzzles Curator - Commercial Educational Exhibits Do Not Go In Museum.

Curator Sargent, of the University, is here arranging the upper floors of the museum. Only slight changes are being made, but it is necessary to keep things in the best order in any well kept museum. Then there is always the question of space which has to be given due consideration, for while collections are ever growing, is quite impossible to have a new wing added every time a big collection comes in.

So it is that the curator of a museum such as the one on the campus must spend much of his time in deciding where he can place his collections, not only where they will take up the least room but show off to the best advantage. Necessarily this problem increases in difficulty each year, provided the museum grows as is usually the case, and it takes a great deal of time to solve it satisfactorily.

Beside the big additions that were made to the museum last spring, this summer the Stearns collection has been increased by 20 instruments of various kinds. The beautiful collection of South American birds, which also came last spring, has been partially disposed of. Probably 50 of them have been mounted and are ready for the glass case. It was suggested some time ago that a part of the museum be used for the various collections of the department of commercial education, but nothing has been done about the matter lately and undoubtedly the constantly increasing demands on the space in the museum would prevent the carrying out of any such a project.