. Annals of Iowa . ated as aids to education, and it marks an epoch ofour local history when the State supplements the general educational ad-vantages of our State University and colleges and schools with the founda-tion of a historical museum freely accessible to all its people. We mayconfidently hope that citizens of the State will actively co-operate in itsdevelopment here, as elsewhere in the Union, by liberal contributions toits enlargement. The Historical Department, for which the State is providing a home,will be an important auxiliary in the development of the higher educationof our fu
. Annals of Iowa . ated as aids to education, and it marks an epoch ofour local history when the State supplements the general educational ad-vantages of our State University and colleges and schools with the founda-tion of a historical museum freely accessible to all its people. We mayconfidently hope that citizens of the State will actively co-operate in itsdevelopment here, as elsewhere in the Union, by liberal contributions toits enlargement. The Historical Department, for which the State is providing a home,will be an important auxiliary in the development of the higher educationof our future citizens. Older and more populous States have establishedthe precedents for it. Our united republic has also given in its historicmuseum at Washington a brilliant example of its popular of citizens from all parts of our country wander through its gal-leries with wonder and delight and improvement. Vast additional collec-tions await another building for their exhibition. It is acknowledged to. HON. JOHN A. KASSON, LL. D. Representative in the General Assembly, 1868-73; Representative in Congress, 1863-67,1873-77 and 1881-84; U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiaryto Austro-Hungary, 1879-81; Envoy Extraordinary and MinisterPlenipotentiary to Germany, 1884-85, etc., etc. I IOWA HISTORICAL BUILDING. 91 be one of the best methods for the diffusion of knowledge among was the avowed purpose of John Smithson in his donation to theUnited States upon which the Smithsonian Institution was founded. Thegovernment, being finally awakened to its importance, contributed to itsdevelopment, and is now committed to its maintenance and wider exten-sion. From the surplus of its collections it also contributes to the growthof similar enterprises in the states where the authorities show a lively in-terest in the encouragement of like institutions. It is a center of scientificinterest and of men of science, who there pursue their studies in the lightof n
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