6 MUSEUMS. 



The Museums were represented by the Director at the Museums 

 Association, which met under the Presidency of Professor E. Ray 

 Lankester, F.R.S., at Oxford, where the members had an opportunity, 

 under the guidance of their respective Curators, of inspecting the more 

 important exhibits, and studying the methods of arrangement in the 

 New Museums, the Pitt-Rivers Collection, and the Ashmolean Museum. 



The Director likewise attended the Meeting of the British Association, 

 held in Toronto in August, under the Presidency of Sir John Evans, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S. He was selected by the Council of the Association to deliver 

 the public lecture annually given to the operatives of the City where the 

 Association meets. The lecture, attended by over 1,500 people, was given 

 on Saturday evening, August 21st. After their arrival in Canada, and 

 previous to the meeting of the Association, many of the members were, 

 through the liberality of the Canadian Government and of the various 

 Railway Companies, able to visit the Museums and other Scientific 

 and Educational Institutions in Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa. At the 

 close of the meeting the ( lanadian Pacific Railway Company placed at 

 the disposal of three separate parties of selected members, which started 

 on different days, sleeping cars from Toronto to Vancouver, giving them 

 facilities for seeing every place of scientific interest along the route, by 

 detaching their carriage for twenty-four hours, and by providing for 

 them, at these stopping places, special steamers and trains. The Director 

 was attached to the Geological party, under the conduct of Dr. GL M. 

 Dawson, C.M.G., the Director General of the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 assisted by Professor Coleman, Toronto University., Mr. A. E. Barlow and 

 Mr. Mclnnes, Members of the Geological Survey, who were unwearied in 

 demonstrating and describing all the geological features of interest along 

 the line. The Director, compelled by unforeseen circumstances to turn 

 back at Winnipeg, was able to see a great deal of the mineral deposits 

 of the country thus far "West, and to gain a clear idea of its main 

 Geological and Geographical features. He had also the welcome 

 opportunity of personally observing some of the North American 

 Indians. Visits were subsequently paid by him to the National Museum 

 and the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington ; the United States 

 Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York ; the 

 Peabody Museum at Yale University ; and the Peabody Museum and 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, 



