THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vor. IV.] OCTOBER, 1880. [No. 46. 
ADDRESS TO THE BIOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION.« 
By A.C. L. G. Guntuer, M.A., M.D., Pu.D., F.R.S., 
President of the Section. 
SIXTEEN years ago, at the meeting of the British Association 
in Bath, the duty which I am endeavouring to discharge to-day 
was entrusted to my predecessor and old friend, the late Dr. John 
Edward Gray. In the address which he then delivered before 
this section, he spoke on “ Museums, their Use and Improve- 
ment,’ and he who had devoted a whole lifetime to the formation 
and management of one of the greatest zoological collections in 
the world, was well qualified to give an opinion and advice on 
this subject. Indeed, when I read now what he then insisted on 
as a necessary change in the system of Museums, I feel compelled 
to pay a passing tribute to his memory. Zoology, Geology, 
Botany were to him not distinct and independent studies; the 
views advanced by a Lamarck, by a Treviranus,—viz., that our 
knowledge of these sciences would remain fragmentary and one- 
sided as long as they were not studied in their mutual relations,— 
found in him one of the earliest advocates in this country. 
Against all opposition he tried to unite the Zoological and 
Paleontological collections in the British Museum, giving up 
this attempt only after having convinced himself of the im- 
practicability of the scheme; and he readily joined the band of 
men who demanded that a Museum should be not merely a 
* Delivered at Swansea, August, 1889. 
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