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The Museum collection of gold ornaments is steadily increasing. Other specimens have been obtained since the expiration of the fiscal year, which makes our present display more attractive and respectable, but it should be a cardinal principle that all prehistoric gold objects [[/strikethrough]] offered to the Museum [[/strikethrough]] should be obtained, and no possible opportunity [[/strikethrough]] of this kind [[/strikethrough]] for increasing our collection should be overlooked or neglected. Hundreds of these objects have found their way into the melting pot and thousands of dollars have been there by added to the gold of our country. But the amoun amount of loss [[/strikethrough]] is inrepairable [[/strikethrough]] to science and to our possible knowledge of prehistoric peoples ^[[is irreparable]]. This loss [[/strikethrough]] to the interest of the public and the attraction to the Museum [[/strikethrough]] is not to be calculated by any monetary standard. If our authorities and our people could but see [[/strikethrough]] and know and understand [[/strikethrough]] the great wealth of the Dublin Museum in gold objects of high antiquity, ^[[& could]] [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] consider [[strikethrough]] ation of [[/strikethrough]] the number and amount of gold objects from America which have