for
all to study optically, and so plain and practical is their scientific
and common-sense arrangement, that the appreciative student must feel
in his heart a great sense of thankfulness, not only to the generous
men of wealth, who by gifts and endowments have created this
magnificent institution, but also to the curators who have by their
arrangements in exhibiting and labelling, with the auxiliaries of "
rubrics " and guides and other publications, made the study of these
representative specimens of minerals so easy that it might almost be
said that" he who runs may read." The students of gems in New York owe
to the generosity of Mr. Morgan the two large Tiffany exhibits of
precious stones which were prepared by Tiffany & Co., under the
direction of Dr. George Frederic Kunz, and exhibited, with distinction
and credit, at the Universal Expositions of 1889 and 1900 at Paris.
These two collections are now incorporated in the general exhibit of
gems in the Gem Room at the museum. In connection with these exhibits,
and as a recognition of his public services in behalf of art and
science, Mr. Morgan was made by the French Republic Officier de Legion d'Honneur. Mr. Morgan also presented to the museum the superb inineralogical
