20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 18!r). 



griitilication of the tastes which they have been forced to ac»iniro. It in as much 

 the duty of the tiovorunieut to provide thcin with museums and libraries for their 

 higher educatiou as it is to establish schools for their jirimary instruction. 



Ill tlie same couversation Sir Philip insisted very strongly that a 

 museum not actually engaged in educational work of some kind could 

 not long survive, pointing to the great system of lectures and exam- 

 inations connected with the Science and Art Department of the Council 

 of Education, of which the South Kensington Museum was one of the 

 chief agencies. 



