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was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on July 
oth, when Professor J. A. Green introduced the question of the 
museum in relation to schools. Attention is also being directed 
to the question of the relation of museums to universities. The 
Committee hopes to complete its labours during the course of 
the coming year. 
THE PLACE OF MUSEUMS IN GENERAL EDUCATION. 
Professor W. Boyd Dawkins stated the value of museums 
in general education depends upon their arrangement, and 
their being classified so as to show the true relations of the 
various objects to one another. He put before the Section a 
scheme of classification based on his experience in Manchester 
dating from 1869, in combining various scattered collections 
into one museum, which is now of equal service to the Uni- 
versity, to the various schools and institutions of the district,. 
and to the general public. What has been done here on a fairly 
large scale may be done with equal success on a small scale else- 
where. The difficulty of co-ordinating the widely different 
groups of objects of human interest has been overcome by the 
adoption of the principles of time and evolution as the basis. 
of classification, as seen in the following scheme :— 
: VIII. History, Anthropology, 
Modern History of VI. VIII. VII. FS ee 
the Earth. Animals. Man. Plants. VII. Botany. VI. Zoology. 
V. Tertiary Life V., IV., III, 11., 1. Geology. 
(Cainozoic). 
IV. Secondary Life V.,1V., III. Paleontology. 
(Mesozoic). 
Ancient History 
of III. Primary Life 
(Paleozoic). 
the Earth. 
II. Rocks. MOG Petrology. ) 
I. Minerals. i Mineralogy. 
SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT. 
In this scheme the minerals are placed at the bottom 
because they are the materials forming the rocks. The existing 
animals and plants stand at the top in their true relation to. 
the geological record, and the various changes, which they 
have undergone in becoming what they are, fix the geological 
age of the rocks in which they lie. The place also of the 
collections illustrationg History, Anthropology, and other 
subjects grouped together in No. VIII., in close relation with 
those of Zoology, Botany (VI., VII.), and Geology (I. to V.), 
is fully justified by the connection between those sciences, and 
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