The scientific museum, the kind of museum with which my remarks here have chiefly to do, is a storehouse of facts, arranged accessibly and supported by the written records and labeled specimens to which they pertain. The purpose of a scientific museum is realized whenever some group of its contained facts is drawn upon for studies leading to publication. The investment of human energy in the formation and maintenance of a research museum is justified only in proportion to the amount of real knowledge which is derived from its materials and given to the world.

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博物馆良心[最初发表于：博物馆作品4：62–63，1922年]

科学博物馆，是我在这里所说的主要与之相关的博物馆，是一个事实仓库，无障碍地排列着，并由书面记录和与它们相关的标本支持。只要将博物馆中包含的某些事实用于出版研究，就可以实现科学博物馆的目的。在建立和维护研究博物馆方面的人力投入仅与从其材料中获得并传递给世界的真实知识的数量成正比。