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physics, energy and radiation, astrophysics, and so on, these efforts might well be expressed by a historian of science within the composition of an Institutional faculty. In the same way, commonality of interest could be surfaced and expressed among the anthropologists, conservators, technologists, and some of the art curators that are involved in collections research such as in the Freer, where they have highly specialized objects relating to the cultural history of the people they represent. Another example where joint faculty efforts might be beneficial would be the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Hirshhorn Museum. Universities are now going to interdepartmental appointments in some situations. We should have been thinking about it, and perhaps doing something about it many years ago. But I am convinced that this is a part of the wave of the future.