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The formal opening of the Germanic Museum at Harvard University took place on Tuesday, November 10th. The Museum was open to the inspection of invited guests the whole day, and at three o'clock in the afternoon the dedication exercises were held in the large and beautiful New Lecture Hall, which was completely filled with a distinguished audience containing representatives of colleges and universities, museums and German societies far and near. On the platform were seated beside the presiding officer, Professor H. C. G. von Jagemann: President Eliot, of Harvard University; Baron von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, German Chargé d'Affaires at Washington; the Lieutenant-Governor of the State, Mr. Curtis Guild; the Honorable Carl Schurz; the Curator of the Germanic Museum, Professor Kuno Francke; the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Germanic Museum Association, Mr. Henry W. Putnam; Professor W. H. Carpenter, of Columbia University; the Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Mr. Edward Robinson; Professors William James, Henry Langford Warren and Hugo Münsterberg,