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judgment, would attract visitors from far and near, and be 

 equally interesting to residents and strangers. — 2. A teaching 

 collection, consisting of carefully-selected, ■well-arranged, and 

 thoroughly labelled types of the classes, orders, families and 

 leading genera of animals and plants, of the series of geological 

 formations and their characteristic fossils, and of minerals — no 

 superfluous specimens to be admitted. — 3. A miscellanemts 

 collection, including fine or rare specimens of exotic productions 

 not necessary for the teaching collection, remarkable curiosities, 

 and ethnological illustrations. There might be included, to 

 render this division useful as well as curious, a classified trade 

 collection, displaying the natural productions or sources of 

 production used in commerce."* 



Professor Phillips, writing on the geology of the Malvern 

 Hills, in 1856, gives the following advice to the Malvern and 

 other Field Clubs at Worcester : — " I would, if it were necessary, 

 urge all persons belonging to Field Clubs, not selfishly to retain 

 the specimens they gather, but to deposit them where they may 

 be of use to their fellow-explorers. My experience of the 

 friendly disposition of the officers and members of those clubs, 

 assures me that here it is not necessary. But I feel justified in 

 proposing a mode by which their liberality may become more 

 effectually and permanently beneficial ; I earnestly advocate and 

 petition for the formation of an entirely local Museum at 

 Malvern. Such an institution there would prove of the utmost 

 value ; — it is not so easy to be established as may be imagined. 

 Whoever has the charge of it will have difficulty except it be 

 made a fundamental law, an invariable statute, to keep the 

 Museum to its narrow but useful purposes. You will be offered 

 curiosities from every land, trifles from every sea. I entreat you 

 to refuse all but what is the growth of your own beautiful 

 Malvernia, or the gift of your Palaeozoic and Mesozoic seas. 



* Life of Edward Forbes, p. 513. 



