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there is, as far as case-room is concerned, a very fair section devoted to the illustration 
of chemical science, but the arrangement followed is so antiquated, and the specimens 
are so few—many of the cases are almost empty—and so little representative, that the 
whole thing is distinctly farcical. 
It seems to me that men like Dr Traquair, looking down from a great height on the 
unscientific rabble, are too much in the habit of dividing the population into three 
classes—scientific men, who have little use for museums ; science students, who have 
their manuals and their laboratories ; and the general public, who have to be amused 
with stuffed animals and big crystals. They forget that large and increasing class, who 
are the main support of such papers as Knowledge, Science Crossip, and even Natural 
Science, who look, and have a right to look, to museums to illustrate their reading. It 
is for this class that museums must cater more and more. The museum of the future, 
if it is to be of any educational value whatever, must become the laboratory, the 
technical college, the university, of those who have to earn a livelihood by their hands. 
Consequently the formation of such a collection as I advocated, were it only in view of 
its importance as an adjunct to the evening lecturer, is an absolute necessity. 
KELYINGROVE MusrEuM, GLASGOW. GrEorGE W. Orb. 
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in the June number (vol. x., p. 427, line 34), where ‘‘a cross between Myxine and the 
cod” ought to read ‘‘ a cross between the megrim and the cod.” 
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