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scientific research. (2) the promotion of industrial develop- 
ment, and (3) the promotion of education, including the 
systematic education of students, and the general educational 
elevation of the masses. If then we advocate a continuation of 
the expenditure which the Province has for some years made 
on its museum, and still more, if we advocate increased expen- 
diture, it must be shown that one or more of these objects which 
properly regulated museums are found to secure, are of importance 
to us, and are likely to be secured by us in our peculiar cir- 
cumstances. 
That industrial development is of importance to us goes with- 
out saying. Our Province is possessed of great, but only slightly 
developed, mineral wealth. We have fertile valleys and an 
abundant and varied vegetation. Our hills are admirably 
adapted for grazing purposes, and our seas and rivers are abun- 
dantly supplied with fish. Nevertheless, our industrial develop- 
ment is still in a comparatively low state. Large quantities of 
some of our raw materials are exported in the raw state ; others 
are neither exported nor worked up by ourselves; and the 
utilisation of waste products is only very partially carried out. 
All means, therefore, which are likely to accelerate the growth 
of our industries, are of importance to us, and should, if possible, 
be adopted. Now for this purpose it is clearly necessary that 
we should know ourselves, and make known to others, what raw 
materials we actually possess. And it is desirable also that we 
should have some means of making known to what extent and 
by what methods these raw materials are being worked up into 
finished products. Printed descriptions are doubtless of much 
value. But the best of all ways of obtaining this end is to 
collect in one place actual specimens of all our raw materials, as 
well as of finished products, specimens of these products in the 
various stages of their manufacture, and, in some cases, specimens, 
either actual or in model or drawing, of the tools, appliances, ete.» 
by which their manufcture is carried on. Such a collection 
would constitute a technological or industrial museum. It would 
form a well selected permanent exhibition of the natural products 
of the province, and of the state of its advancement in the 
