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NATURAL SCIENCE. 



March, 



adjunct. The principal room is very well lighted by a double row of 

 upright skylights, which extend along the whole length, and by seven 

 large windows. 



The window at the northern end of the room is filled with stained 

 glass, and was formerly in the old School Library, where it was put 

 up by old Etonians during the head-mastership of Dr. Hawtrey. It 

 is an heraldic window, containing the arms of Eton and of various 

 personages and institutions connected with the school. 



The northern end of the Museum, which is separated to a certain 

 extent from the rest of the room by arches and pillars, forms a library, 

 in which there is an excellent collection of books on Natural History; 

 it is further furnished with tables and chairs for the purposes of 

 reading and study. 



The Eton College Museum. 



The books comprise text-books, books on the British fauna, 

 natural history, travels, etc., etc., and include a complete collection 

 of the Palaeontographical Society's works, and of the scientific 

 reports of the voyage of the " Challenger." 



In the three years during which the Museum has been opened its 

 contents have increased rapidly; but before giving an account of what 

 the collections now consist of, it will be perhaps useful to give a sketch 

 of what a museum of this sort should contain ; in fact, of an ideal 

 School Museum. 



There are two very distinct and separate classes of boys to whom 

 a School Museum will appeal : these may be called the Professional 

 and the Amateur. Of these, the former, though considerably the 



