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Page 108 - An efficient educational museum may be described as a collection of instructive labels, each illustrated by a well-selected specimen.
Page 139 - If you wish your schools of science and art to be effective, your health, your air, and your food to be wholesome, your life to be long, and your manufactures to improve, your trade to increase, and your people to be civilized, you must have museums of science and art to illustrate the principles of life, wealth, nature, science, art, and beauty.
Page 140 - Wo educate our working people in the public schools, give them a love for retined and beautiful objects, and stimulate in them a desire for information. They leave school, go into the pursuits of town life, and have no means provided for the gratification of the tastes which they have been forced to acquire. It is as much the duty of the Government to provide them with museums and libraries for their higher education as it is to establish schools for their primary instruction.
Page 125 - The printed label maybe read over again and again, and is often copied into the visitor's notebook. Again, under the old system, examining a collection was looked upon rather in the light of amusement than study, and what might have been possible in the way of instruction was rarely attempted. In these days, when the curator attempts verbal instruction, it is by means of a lecture in the museum lecture hall, or, if a floor lecture, among the cases, surrounded by hundreds or scores of auditors, who...
Page 94 - Pitt-Rivers collection at Oxford, arranged to show the evolution of culture and civilization without regard to race. This broader plan admits much material excluded by the advocates of ethnographic museums, who devote their attention almost exclusively to the primitive or non-European peoples. In close relation to the ethnographic museums are those which are devoted to some special field of human thought and interest. Most remarkable among these...
Page 14 - I cannot refrain from saying a word upon the sadly-neglected art of taxidermy, which continues to fill the cases of most of our museums with wretched and repulsive caricatures of mammals and birds, out of all natural proportions, shrunken here and bloated there, and in attitudes absolutely impossible for the creature to have assumed while alive. Happily there may be seen occasionally, especially where amateurs of artistic taste and good knowledge of natural history have devoted themselves to the...
Page 14 - Newcastle — to show that an animal can be converted after death, by a proper application of taxidermy, into a real life-like representation of the original, perfect in form, proportions, and attitude, and almost, if not quite, as valuable for conveying information on these points as the living creature itself.
Page 70 - The educational uses of museums, dated 1853, all(i tne st'H earlier one by Edward Edwards on The maintenance and management of public galleries and museums, printed in 1840. No one, however, has as yet attempted, even in a preliminary way, to formulate a general theory of administration applicable to museum work in all its branches except Professor Jevons, who in the paper already referred to presented in an exceedingly suggestive manner the ideas which should underlie such a theory. It is still...
Page 80 - The general character of museums should be clearly determined at its very inception. Specialization and division of labor are essential for institutions as well as for individuals. It is only a great national museum which can hope to include all departments, and which can with safety encourage growth in every direction. A city museum...
Page 96 - ... structure, and geographical distribution — past and present ; also their relation to each other, and their influence upon the structure of the earth and phenomena observed upon it. 2. Museums of Natural History and Anthropology meet on common ground in Man. In practice, the former usually treats of Man in his relations to other animals, the latter of Man in his relations to other men.