Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baxter, author of a research paper on the legal problems of the Suez Canal and other international water ways, has been a member of the Law School Faculty since...
...areas. To make stored specimens useful, exact descriptions and cataloguing are necessary. Because of the serious deficiencies of its earlier catalogues, the Museum is trying to catch up with the recording of its over one million objects. For this, as well as all its other special functions--publications, expeditions, research, much new equipment--the Museum has an annual budget of $85,000. As a money-saving device, it asks professors who visit the Museum to study parts of its collection in order to check the catalogue to see that it is complete and up-to-date on their special areas...
...exhibition in Nicaragua. These will have to fit somewhere. The usefulness of this new Nicaragua collection, as well as some parts of the Museum's rarely used study material, is questionable. Though a Permanent Committee on Storage Space carefully weeds out many such useless items, this work requires anthropological research on a truly sweeping scale. The Museum does not have unlimited storage space, and the upkeep of a catalogue is complex and expensive enough to warrant an increase in this editorial winnowing of its collection...
...cataloguing, a specialist in the field is needed to remedy these ills. For instance, it took one graduate student one and a half years of laborsome research to revise four cases of Iroquois and Algonquin tools. For every item selected, a thousand were discarded. This is something which more money could not quickly accomplish for the Museum. Yet here too money could help. It seems only fair that those volunteers who devote so much extra time to the Museum be remunerated. Also, an honorarium for such services would encourage others who are qualified but far less free with their time...
Beside these research exhibits, the Museum must also be concerned about its displays for the general public, for these shows "at the level of Anthropology 1" attract the greatest number of visitors. Poor lighting and insufficient labelling plague many of these exhibitions in the large halls. For example, the nineteen cases of African specimens on the fifth floor are illumined by only two lamps in the center of the room. To make matters worse, the shades are drawn presumabaly to prevent the exhibits from fading...