a series of coins and medals; (jeography, including, 

 as it properly does, the natural history of the coun- 

 tries described, by abundant specimens in all the 

 three departments of mineralogy, botany, and zool- 

 ogy : again, a frequent reference to the Museum will 

 be found of much value as illustrative of descriptive 

 poetry^ which, from its tendency to elevate and refine 

 the mind, is read in every good school : for example, 

 if a child reads in one of the most accurate and ele- 

 gant of our poets, of the coral-building polypes, that 



* * Millions of millions thus, from age to age, 



With simplest skill and toil unweariable. 



No moment and no movement unimproved. 



Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread. 



To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, 



By marvellous structure, climbing toward the day:" 



will it not " heighten and brighten " his ideas to show 

 him the work of these little architects, and the cells 

 that were their habitations ? Or, if a youth reads in 

 another of our most distinguished poets, that 



** Fain St. Hilda's nuns would learn, 

 If, on a rock by Lindisfarne, 

 St. Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame 

 The sea-born beads that bear his name ; 

 Such tales had Whitby's fishers told," — 



will he not look with interest upon the encrinites in 

 our Museum? Indeed, as it is certain that the mind is 

 more deeply impressed by the sight of objects than 

 any description of them, it is clear that to bring be- 



