Pober Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming reprint publication of David Murray's Museums: Their History & Their Use. New Introduction by Paula Findlen, author of Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Volume one of this 3 volume work is a general history of museums and collecting. The 704 page bibliography (volumes 2 and 3) is divided into five sections: I. Literature of museums: bibliography of bibliographies. II. Museography III. The collections, preparation, and preservation, registration and exhibition of specimens. IV. Catalogues and other works relating to particular museums. V. Travels and general literature. For more information about this work please request a copy of our descriptive brochure. There will be a pre-publication discount for orders received before the expected publication date of October 1999. Please send all requests for information directly to Pober Publishing and not to the list. Thank you. Stephen E. Pober Pober Publishing 35 Stratford Road Staten Island, NY 10301 e-mail: [log in to unmask]