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NATURAL SCIENCE. 



March, 1894. 



hours of 12 and 2, and on whole-school days {i.e., Monday, Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, and Friday) between 4 and 5. Lately the experiment 

 of opening on Sunday afternoons has been tried, and has succeeded 

 admirably. A very large number of boys avail themselves of this 

 opportunity every Sunday, but it must be confessed that the week- 

 day attendance is rather meagre. Whether this can ever be remedied 

 is a difficult question, the present Eton boy having very little leisure 

 during the day. Besides the regular school hours, which, it must be 

 confessed, are not too long, a large amount of time is taken up by the 

 average boy in learning his lessons and also "extras" (i.e., private 

 tuition in extra subjects). When to this is added the time necessarily 

 spent in games, there is very little leisure time left to the ordinary 

 Eton boy for improving his mind, even if he wishes to do so. 



The conception and carrying out of the Eton Museum has been 

 almost entirely due to Dr. Warre, the present Head Master, who has 

 always shown a most keen appreciation of the advantages and uses 

 of a School Museum. In these ideas he has been ably seconded by 

 the scientific members of the staff of masters: Mr. Hale and the late 

 Messrs. P. H. Carpenter and J. Drew, who have all largely contributed 

 out of their private means to the support of the Museum. The 

 greater amount of the actual work of planning and setting in order 

 the Museum as it now is, was, however, undertaken by Mr. A. 

 Vaughan Jennings, who, after a year's hard work, had to resign the 

 post of curator on account of ill-health. 



W. L. Sc LATER. 



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