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 lished an institute of "Purchasing Agents" sufficiently trained in the history of art.

The Section intends to widely utilize the special commissions for purposes of art-archeologic discoveries, investigations of architectural styles, restoration work, uncovering of frescoes, etc. It has been planned to publish a special magazine devoted to the science of museums, and also to organize regular congresses of museum workers and to establish exemplary exhibitions demonstrating the process and development of the science of museums and activities thereof. It has been also planned to rearrange the art treasures in the museums with the view of endowing each museum with greater value and individuality and abolishing the existing chaos and dullness.

The Section considers the immediate problem of our times the establishment of a number of museums in those fields of art which in Russia have heretofore been wholly neglected, for instance, a museum of Oriental Art, a museum of the most recent art and a museum of sculpture.

Special attention will be given by the Section to the provincial museums. The establishment of new museums in the localities and a wholehearted support of those functioning, is, in the opinion of the Sections, one of the most fundamental problems of the Russian museum policy. Another such pressing problem is democratization and popularization of the museums' activities, which can be accomplished at first by making the attendance of the museums easier and by the aid which a museum can render to the spectators during the study of collections through lectures or lecture cycles.

The object of the Section shall have been considered completed by a thoroughly drawn up program of excursions and tours within the reach of the masses of the people; and by the widest distribution of carefully executed reproductions and popular editions on art subjects.

Also, regarding scientific art works, the Section will meet the museums' needs in the sphere of technique and budget for the purpose of advancing, in the best possible way, the Science of Museums—a science so young in Russia. For this purpose each museum will be given an opportunity to have photographic archives, a library of an informative character, and specially fitted technical shops wherever needed; photographic, restorative,