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The Council was specially gratified by the friendly interest manifested in the event by 
kindred institutions both in the British Isles and abroad. The American Museum of Natural 
History, New York, honoured the Museum by sending over its Director, Dr. Lucas, to repre- 
sent it at the ceremony, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, appointed Dr. 
Ed. Robinson and Mr. W. R. Valentiner to attend on its behalf. Dr. C. W. Beebe, the 
Curator of Birds, represented the New York Zoological Gardens, and Mr. F. Kermode, 
the Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C. Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith and Mr. C. E. Fagan 
represented the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum respectively. Heads 
of many other kindred institutions in England also attended, including Dr. W. M. Tattersall, 
Manchester ; Mr. T. Sheppard, Hull; Alderman J. Fuller Eberle (Chairman of the Museum 
Committee) ; Mr. H. Bolton ; and Mr. R. Quick, of Bristol. 
At the ceremony I met the Director of the Bristol Museum, Mr. H. Bolton, who visited 
the Provincial Museum with the British Association when they came to America for their 
meeting, extending their trip to British Columbia. Upon invitation of Director Bolton and 
Mr. J. Fuller Eberle, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bristol Museum, I 
visited Bristol and received a cordial welcome, and was shown considerable material of 
interest regarding museum-work. After leaving Bristol I visited the Natural History 
Museums in Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, and Hamburg, on the Continent, which were of great 
interest to me as one who is interested in the condition of the educational value of an 
up-to-date museum. From Hamburg I went to Edinburgh, Scotland, and visited the Royal 
Scottish Museum, and was taken over the collection by the Director, Sir T. Carlow 
Martin, LL.D. 
Leaving Edinburgh, I went to Liverpool and visited the Natural History Museum 
under the direction of Dr. J. A. Clubb. 
On my return to Canada I visited the Museums at Quebec and Ottawa. 
In conclusion, I may say that, having been permitted by the Government to visit these 
large institutions of the world, it has been a great education to me, and I hope that when 
the new Museum is built I shall be able to carry out some of the ideas that I have formed 
of what an educational museum should be, and also what it means to the community at large. 
The Provincial Museum has been honoured by the visits of several leading men in 
science, who expressed themselves as deeply interested in what they inspected, and that the 
Provincial Museum had exceeded all their expectations as a Provincial collection. 
Dr. A. R. Crook, Director of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History, whom I 
met at the meeting of the American Museums Association, and who has since visited our 
Museum, had nothing but praise, and said that it was the finest local collection he had 
ever seen. 
The most distinguished personages who visited the Museum were the Royal party, Their 
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia, who spent 
some time in going over the collection, and expressed admiration of the big-game and 
anthropological collections. 
ATTENDANCE. 
The attendance showed a slight increase over 1911—37,897 visitors signing the register. 
I venture to say that, on an average, about one in five of the travelling public insert their 
names in the book. 
The Museum is open to the public (free) every week-day (except New Year’s Day, Good 
Friday, and Christmas) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday afternoons, from the first 
Sunday in May to the last Sunday in October, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
