" // is to the development of Provincial Museums that ive must 

 look in the future for the extension of intellectual pursuits throughout 

 the la?td." 



Prof. Edward Forbes. 



" The value of a Museum does 7iot consist so much in the number as 

 in the order and arrangement of the specimens contained in itT 



Agassiz. 



" / zvould urge all persons belonging to Field Clubs, not selfishly 

 to retain the speci7nens they gather, but to deposit them where they may 

 be of use to their fellow-explorers. . . I earnestly advocate and petition 

 for the formation of an entirely Local Museum." 



Prof. Phillips. 



" I believe that the most useful museum . . . is that which is devoted 

 to the natural objects of its locality. It gives a stimulus to observe and 

 collect ; it adds an interest to every object contributed, in the relation 

 tvhich each specimen bears to its collector, and the circumstances attend- 

 ing its recognition. Well carried out, such a museum is helpful to 

 science in fixing a date to the fauna and flora of the district, and in 

 giving the material means of contrasting it with the conditions of both 

 at a later period!'' 



Sir Richard Owen. 



'•''All schools and tnuseums, whatsoever, can only be, what they 

 claim to be, and ought to be, places of noble instruction, tvhen the persons 

 who have a ?>iifid to use them can obtain so much relief from the work, 

 or exert so much abstinence from the dissipations of the outside world as 

 fnay enable them to devote a certain portion of secluded, laborious, and 

 reveretit life to the attainment of the Divine Wisdom, which the Greeks 

 supposed to be the gift of Apollo, or of the sun, and which the Christian 

 knows to be the gift of Christ." 



RUSKIN. 



