87 

 THE MUSEUM. 



" A Museum is a consultative liljrary of objects where people can see frif tliemselves the things of which they read 

 aljout in books." — The Right Hon. T. H. Huxley. 



The Mnsenm opens from the Picture Galleiy, aud eoiitaiiis a Large nmnher of iiiterestiug- 

 exhibits, some of wliieh are detailed lielow. Immedia,tely ou entering the visitor will hnd the 



South Kensington Art Collection and the South Kensington Technological Collection, 



which comprise a large number of studies for the use of students of art, which were handed over 

 to the Trustees by the late J. Bosisto, Esq., C.M.G., M.P., when the Technological Commission 

 was disbanded. The studies are fi-om the life and from the antique, antl will be found very useful 

 by students in all liranches of art. 



To the left the visitor will find the 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGICAL COURT. 



CI 1LLK(_'TU>.\ OF NESTS OF VIl'TOKIAN J'.lKh' 



the following descrijition of the Exhibits in which has been i)repared by Mr. C. French, F.L.S., 

 Government Entomologist : — 



"The advantages to l)e gained by a study of Economic Entomology are so many that to 

 enumerate only a few of them would take uj) more space than we ha\'e at our command for the 

 present catalogue or handbook. 



" In a colony wliere agriculture idays so important a, part in the every-day life of its 

 inhabitants, and is by nature destined to liold a much liigher jiosition than it has hitherto done, it 

 must be patent to all thinking pieople that any help we can give to those who live by the soil must 

 be appreciated. 



