xl PROCEEDINGS, 
Especial attention should be given to the products of this Province. 
They should be scientifically marshalled and their industrial applications 
carefully and suggestively illustrated. Raw products in every stage of 
their manufacturing processes should be exhibited. 
The museum should be in charge of a man of the broadest scientific 
culture, a man of business capacity, and a thorough teacher. 
A museum thus equipped would do more for science than any college 
or any other agency. Every visitor from the country would return to 
his home with his curiosity awakened, and often with scientifie problems 
or difficulties solved, with a new inspiration for further advances. 
Such an institution would have organic connection with every high 
school and college in the province, exchanging specimens and thus 
enriching the local school museums, diffusing scientific information, and 
stimulating scientific activity. 
How often throughout the last sixteen years have our teachers 
lamented the want of opportunity in this respect? During their 
holidays they would have made large collections of interesting objects 
which they would study in classes formed at the museum. Long since 
every school in the city, after the example of the German schools, would’ 
have been supplied with a respectable collection of labelled specimens 
for the instruction of their pupils, and the amount of scientific know- 
ledge and interest would have been increased tenfold. 
For the sake of economy and efficiency the museum and the science 
library should be in the same building and in charge of the curator of 
the museum. ; 
Book and specimen are complementary and should be drawn as close 
together as possible. ‘ First of all, their aims are identical, for they 
have the one end in view, the culture of the people ; secondly, they 
appeal to the same mental faculties with which all men are endowed in 
a greater or less degree, and thirdly, to a very great extent one of them, 
the museum, to carry out its proper functions. to a great measure, is 
dependent on the other. Jt Jeans upon it, as it were ; it looks to it to 
minister to the museum visitors that information which the most 
comprehensive catalogue and labels in the world would fail to supply.”* 
If all the specimens were labelled giving references to the books in 
which they were best described, placed on a shelf near at hand, the 
*C. W. Wallis, Curator Birmingham Art Galleries and Museum. 
