Notes and Comments. ray 
be carried. On these occasions a good trained dog is an 
invaluable acquisition, either a well broken spaniel or a small 
wired-haired terrier, the writer’s preferences goes for the latter, 
and if “ up-to-date’’ being very active and small, with the 
former quality he will recover your wounded and being small, 
will do likewise with those that have crawled in the burrow 
a distance of two or three feet.’ We are inclined to agree with 
a further remark made by our author, viz., ‘ Silence is the key- 
note of success.’ 
SAFETY OF MUSEUMS DURING THE WAR. 
In the Museums Journal, the official organ of the Museums 
Association, suggestions were recently made that our museums 
should mark their roofs by a protecting sign (a black and white 
panel) because at the Hague Convention this suggestion was 
made, as a protection against bombardment ; the assumption 
being that the ‘enemy’ would respect buildings so marked ! 
OTHER PROTECTION. 
To this suggestion a ‘ Provincial Curator’ replied that : 
‘Having regard to the great reverence the Germans have 
already shown for “ specified buildings ”’ including museums, 
surely the one thing we should not do in this country would 
be specially to mark museums with a so-called “ protective 
sign,’ as such a “ protective sign’ would certainly be looked 
upon as a target for the air raiders. The present writer “‘ some- 
where in England,” has probably seen more results of air raids 
than most curators, and he certainly has reasons for suggesting 
that in our own interests it would not be wise to distinguish 
buildings in this character. Possibly the writer of the note in 
The Museums Journal was inspired by some such notice as 
the following, which appeared in the press, via Amsterdam ; 
personally I look upon it as a delicious piece of irony: “ A 
telegram from Brussels states that the German Society for the 
Protection and Preservation of Monuments has held a session 
at Brussels, under the presidency of General von Bissing, when 
a number of German and Austrian speakers expressed their 
thanks to the German military authorities for the care the army 
had taken of the monuments of Belgium, France, and Galicia 
during the operations of the war. The function ended with 
an excursion to Louvain, Malines, Lierre and Antwerp.” The 
members would then doubtless form an idea of the way in 
which the Germans would respect the monuments and art 
treasures in Britain, had they the chance.’ 
AN EDITORIAL REPLY. 
To this, the editor, who is the curator of the ‘ Brassey 
Institute,’ Hastings, replies :—‘ As the wisdom of indicating 
museums by a protective sign—the black and white panel— 


1916 April 1. 
