Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he would work for the remainder of his career. He held a variety of titles, including curator (1893-1894?); Librarian (1893-1904); Assistant Director, (1901–1903); and Temporary Director (1907). For almost the entire time, he also served as Secretary (1894-1925), with responsibility for publications and advising the Director and the Board. In his remarks to the board and in his publications, Gilman urged that art museums display original masterpieces of art, not reproductions, and make it easy for the visitor to engage with them; to consider the visitor's comfort (he coined the term "museum fatigue"); and to focus on aesthetics, not on art history. He also introduced the use of docents to the museum, coining that word. His major work, Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method (1918), is an extended argument for this concept of the museum. Publications He was the author of: "Operations in Relative Number with Applications to the Theory of Probabilities", Studies in Logic (1883), C. S. Peirce, ed., pp. 107–125. Google Books Eprint. Internet Archive Eprint. Manual of Italian Renaissance Sculpture (1904). Google Books Eprint. Internet Archive Eprint. Hopi Songs (1908). Google Books Eprint. A Traditional Music Library Eprint (This website says "circa 1891"; that is when Gilman began his research on the subject). Internet Archive Eprint. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method (1918). Google Books Eprint. Internet Archive Eprints. "The Paradox of the Syllogism Solved by Spatial Construction", Mind'', New Series, v. 32, n. 125 (Jan., 1923), pp. 38–49 (12 pages). JSTOR Eprint. as well as many other articles on a wide range of philosophical, mathematical, political, and museological topics. References 1852 births 1933 deaths American art curators American non-fiction writers Williams College alumni Gilman family of New Hampshire American people of Welsh descent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston American male non-fiction writers American museologists