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[Illustration: The Historical Department.]

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                                  THE
                            MUSEUM GAZETTE.

                 NO. 2.      JUNE, 1906.      VOL. 1.

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OUR HISTORY ROOM. (_See Frontispiece._)

A department of our Museum to which, as regards its educational
usefulness, we attach very great importance, is that which attempts the
illustration of Human History. It is displayed in a separate division
of the main building, and is arranged, as far as possible, on “the
space-for-time method.” This method, which, following the pattern of
an ordinary diary, allots to every period of time