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to watch over what is being done and take measures with 



the advice of others when necessary. . . . As for 



and id genus omne, I have never expected anything but 

 opposition from them. But I don't think it is necessary 

 to trouble one's head about such opposition. It may be 

 annoying and troublesome, but if we are beaten by it we 

 deserve to be. We shall have to wade through oceans 

 of trouble and abuse, but so long as we gain our end, 

 I care not a whistle whether the sweet voices of the 

 scientific mob are with me or against me. 



According to Huxley's views a complete system 

 demanded a triple museum for each subject, Zoology 

 and Botany, since Geology was sufficiently provided 

 for in Jermyn Street one typical or popular, "in 

 which all prominent forms or types of animals or 

 plants, recent or fossil, should be so displayed as to 

 give the public an idea of the vast extent and variety 

 of natural objects, to diffuse a general knowledge of 

 the results obtained by science in their investigation 

 and classification, and to serve as a general introduc- 

 tion to the student in Natural Science " ; the second 

 scientific, " in which collections of all available animals 

 and plants and their parts, whether recent or fossil, 

 and in a sufficient number of specimens, should.be 

 disposed conveniently for study, and to which should 

 be exclusively attached an appropriate library, or 

 collection of books and illustrations relating to science, 

 quite independent of any general library " ; the third 

 economic, "in which economic products, whether 

 zoological or botanical, with illustrations of the pro- 

 cesses by which they are obtained and applied to use, 



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