310 Notes and Comments. 
“the antenne are completely absent in all known forms, 
Schepotieff’s account of the antenne of Protapteron indicum 
having been shown by Rimsky-Korsakow to have been an 
error, Rimsky-Korsakow also states that Schepotieff was 
mistaken in his account of the mouth parts, etc., and that his 
-genus Protapteron indicum is a quite typical member of the 
genus LEosentomon.’ Also ‘ Silvestri first described them as 
an order Protura of the subclass Apterygota of the Insecta. 
Berlese . . . removed them from the Insecta and treated them 
as an order Myrientomata of the class Myriapoda. Schepotieff 
united them with Campodea as a suborder Prothysanura of 
the Thysanura. Borner makes them an order of the Aptery- 
gota. Rimsky-Korsakow . . . proposes to consider them as a 
class Myrientomata, between the Myriapoda and the Insecta.’ 
Prell gives an elaborate classification, and so on. Heaven 
only knows where the Protura now are ! 
A FOLK MUSEUM FOR ENGLAND. 
One of the greatest needs in this country is the establish- 
ment of a National Folk Museum, and the fact that the Crystal 
Palace is now available for some public purpose enables the 
matter to be discussed in the current number of Knowledge. 
Of all the survivals from former times, none surpass in interest 
the people’s homes. The first duty, therefore, of the open-air 
museum would be to secure ancient houses bearing in a suffi- 
ciently well-marked manner features distinctive of some period 
or locality. The buildings would be taken down and re-erected 
in the grounds with scrupulous regard to their original form. 
It is not contemplated, it need hardly be said, to ransack 
the English countryside and tear buildings from their time- 
honoured sites, where there is no danger of their demolition 
or serious mutilation, but to rescue here and there worthy 
and typical buildings in imminent danger of destruction. 
After their re-erection the houses would be provided with 
contemporary furniture and all appropriate appliances, the 
idea being to show them exactly as they appeared to the 
people of the time. Some of the houses might have associated 
with them old English gardens, with a columbarium, a well- 
house, a sundial, and clipped yews. 
OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS. 
Besides domestic buildings, other structures would be 
treated in the same way, such as ancient barns and water- 
mills. It might even be possible to save some abandoned and 
decaying English church, whose preservation is demanded by 
its age or importance. Such a church would form the most 
appropriate home for the display of ecclesiastical art. The 
scheme provides for the assignment of a portion of the grounds 
for our great national games and pastimes. Here would be a 
Naturalist, 
