472 NATURAL SCIENCE. dec. 1894. 



I HOPE you will permit me a word m this discussion. As a member of the 

 Association who was present throughout the Dublin meeting, although I personally 

 feel extremely grateful to the able Secretaries and to the local committee, whose 

 indefatigable exertions made the meeting the success it was, I must never- 

 theless express sympathy with the feeling which actuated your editorial note in 

 Natural Science for August. The object of our Association is undoubtedly purely 

 practical ; that is, we meet mainly for the purpose of seeing and learning of new and 

 efficient mechanical appliances and new methods, for the display and arrangement 

 of the objects in Museums, considered entirely apart from the scientific or artistic 

 details of the objects themselves. This we aim at accomplishing by the inspection 

 of the Museums within reach of the place of meeting, by the reading of papers which 

 describe the arrangements, actual or proposed, in these or other Museums, and by 

 the discussion and explanation of the same. Now, on the last day of the meeting I 

 did feel that the reading of papers and the discussion were considerably restricted 

 owing to want of time; and one kept silence in regard to many points on which one 

 would have liked more information, because this want was evident. 



The excursion to Bray — which all those who joined in it described (so far as I 

 heard) as charming (for I personally employed the day in re-visiting the Museums 

 in Dublin, gathering details of the many excellent devices introduced there by 

 Dr. Ball and his officers, some of which I am now trying to give effect to here) — was 

 a part of the programme that some others besides myself felt might have been 

 postponed, and the day given instead to the discussion of the many important appli- 

 ances described, and other matters raised (but scarcely settled) in papers read before 

 the Association. Lord Powerscourt's collection, though of the highest interest per se, 

 did not pretend to any arrangement which could afford new hints to the Museum 

 Curator. Such luxuries as this excursion and visits to other places of great interest 

 in themselves, but only indirectly beneficial to us as Curators, might, on future 

 occasions, I think, be advantageously deferred till the true work of the Association 

 has been accomplished, when those who are able to remain would enjoy them with 

 greater zest and a clear conscience. 



The Museums, Liverpool. Henry O. Forbes. 



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