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induce any man of capacity to devote himself to it 

 as a profession/' ^ 



In concluding his remarks on his own Museum, 

 Flower drew attention to the illustration of the 

 double treatment of the research and the public 

 division of a subject in the Botanical Department 

 of the Natural History Museum. The general 

 public are not such frequent visitors to this as to 

 other parts of the Museum. But any one who 

 sees its arrangement, which was begun under Mr. 

 Carruthers after the removal from Bloomsbury, and 

 continued under Mr. George Murray, will agree 

 with Flower that as an example of good museum 

 arrangement it is a model of what can be achieved. 

 The public can learn with the least possible trouble, 

 while the specialist in every department finds his 

 own subject fully illustrated and the specimens ready 

 to his hand. 



The conclusions quoted above represent the 

 main body of Flower's general convictions as to 

 the management of museums, of which he, accord- 

 ing to Professor Virchow, was ** the Prince of 

 Directors." They are elaborated elsewhere, in 

 every Zoological Museum in Europe and America, 

 but the substance does not alter. 



There remained the consideration not of matters 

 but of men ; of the kind of initiative and control 



1 The bird-stuffing which made most impression on Flower, as directed by an 

 amateur, was that in Mr. Booth's collection presented to Brighton. The 

 lifelike taxidermy of Mr. Rowland Ward and of Mr. Pickhardt at the 

 Museum might in justice to them be *' signed " with the artists' names. 



