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THE MUSEUMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



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smaller in numbers, will make much more use of the museum, while 

 the Amateur class is much more numerous, especially in a Classical 

 School like Eton. 



The Professional class of boys are those who are taking up, as 

 part of their school-work, some scientific subject, such as Biology or 

 Geology. For the Biologists, a good typical series of well -named 

 and well-labelled specimens, illustrating the structure and principal 

 forms of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, is required. For the 

 instruction of the Geologists, a good typical series of rocks, minerals, 

 and fossils, arranged in stratigraphical order, is necessary. All the 

 specimens can, of course, be removed when required to illustrate 

 lectures on either subject. 



For the Amateurs, by which name I designate those boys whose 



Interior of the Eton College Museum, Looking North. 



interest in Natural History has been aroused by making such 

 collections as those of butterflies and birds' eggs, a different series of 

 collections is required. P'or this class, what is mainly wanted is 

 a set of specimens of the British fauna as complete as possible. 

 Mammals, birds and their eggs, and insects are, of course, the groups 

 in which the greatest amount of interest is shown, and it is especially 

 to those groups that attention should be directed. Moreover, 

 as many of the Eton boys come from very different parts of the 

 British kingdom, it seems unwise to limit the faunal collections to the 

 productions of the neighbourhood of Eton. 



The local School Museum should, therefore, in my opinion, 

 contain : — 



