A Cabinet of curiosities: five episodes in the evolution of American museums

The cabinet of the American Philosophical Society, by W. J. Bell, Jr.

The museum of the American Antiquarian Society, by C. K. Shipton.

William Clark's Indian Museum in St. Louis, 1816-1838, by J. C. Ewers.

"Ohio show-shop": the Western Museum of Cincinnati, 1820-1867, by L. L. Tucker.

Joseph Henry's conception of the purpose of the Smithsonian Institution, by W. E. Washburn.