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JANUARY 20TH, 1892. 



INGE the removal of the County Museum from its 

 foimer obscure site to the present one, it has been 

 making steady progress, mainly through the care 

 and attention bestowed upon it by the Committee 

 of Management, aided by its accomplished 

 Curator, Mr. H. J. Moule. Professor H. B. 

 Flower, C.B., President of the British Association, 

 said, in his Inaugural Address at Newcastle in 1889, 

 that a Museum should have a curator of general scientific attain- 

 ments, and who is specially acquainted with, and devoted to, the 

 work. " Some persons," he added, " are enthusiastic enough 

 to think that a Museum is in itself so good an object that 

 they have only to provide a building and cases and a certain 

 number of specimens, no matter exactly what, to fill them, 

 and then the thing is done ; whereas the work is then only really 

 begun. What a Museum ' really depends upon for its success and 

 usefulness is not its building, not its cases, not even its specimens, 

 but its curator. He and his staff are its life and soul, upon whom 

 its whole value depends, and yet in many of our Museums they are 

 the last to be thought of." This opinion of so eminent a naturalist 

 as Prof. Flower is confirmed by the present successful state of our 



