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aid tliat tlie present observations are intended generally for those 

 several Museums in different parts of tlie country that appear to 

 have abandoned their duties, especially when these are owing to the 

 ratepayers, and by no means for a.nj special application to the 

 Cantei'bury Museum. As already mentioned, this Institution has 

 not profited by the former complaints or expostulations. Perhaps 

 that untoward result may have been owing mainly to the supineness 

 of the public, or a want of taste here for natural science ; and if 

 this be the fact, it is a surprising and deplorable one in the city 

 where William Harvey was educated and George Newport was 

 born. But, recognising the great truth, so well taught by John 

 Ruskin, that all highest Art miist be founded on Nature, we may 

 stiU hope much from a city that has produced Sidney Cooper and 

 Henry Weekes. 



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