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200 good condition, figure out the fund from which they will be paid and make out the necessary vouchers for the signatures of the director and finance committee. Another important part of his work will be the making out of the pay roll and attending to such formalities as may be necessary in the administering of the various funds. All these things are important and if properly attended to will keep one man exceedingly busy in any wide-awake institution. The placing and covering of insurance is another matter that may properly be left to such a man.

Matters pertaining to the membership of the museum and to the issuing of the bulletin, arranging for lectures, accessioning and cataloguing works of art, etc., are other large items in the list of the duties of the director. A museum in the ordinary small town with a population of about 200,000 should have a membership of at least 2,000 persons. In order to attain this, one person should devote her entire time to this alone. There is no reason why this person should not be a woman, and the salary she is paid would easily be made up by the new memberships she should bring in. It should be arranged for her to spend some part of every day in visiting people to tell them of the work of the museum, some part of each day in studying the collections, and