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there is, as far as case-room is concerned, a very fair section devoted to the illustration 

 of chemical science, hut the arrangement followed is so antiquated, and the specimens 

 are so few — many of the cases are almost empty — and so little representative, that the 

 whole thing is distinctly farcical. 



It seems to me that men like Dr Traquair, looking down from a great height on the 

 unscientific rabble, are too much in the habit of dividing the population into three 

 classes — scientific men, who have little use for museums ; science students, who have 

 their manuals and their laboratories ; and the general public, who have to be amused 

 with stuffed animals and big crystals. They forget that large and increasing class, who 

 are the main support of such papers as Knowledge, Science Gossip, and even Natural 

 Science, who look, and have a right to look, to museums to illustrate their reading. It 

 is for this class that museums must cater more and more. The museum of the future, 

 if it is to be of any educational value whatever, must become the laboratory, the 

 technical college, the university, of those who have to earn a livelihood by their hands. 

 Consequently the formation of such a collection as I advocated, were it only in view of 

 its importance as an adjunct to the evening lecturer, is an absolute necessity. 



Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. George W. Ord. 



Several correspondents have noted an unfortunate misprint which escaped correction 

 in the June number (vol. x., p. 427, line 34), where "a cross between Myxine and the 

 cod " ought to read " a cross between the megrim and the cod." 



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