24 ON MUSEUMS, &c.. 



Visits to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington might in like manner 

 be utilized. 



The Geological Museum at Montreal should be deliberately and 

 minutely examined Laval, at Quebec, also contains scientific treasures. 



Our own University Museum at Toronto is of course familiar ground 

 already to our young lovers of Natural Science. It will be found a 

 good antepast to the feasts that await them on their visits to larger 

 establishments. It presents some good studies in ornithology and 

 entomology. I wish our own small Museum, connected with the 

 Canadian Institute, were richer in objects, but it is not wholly to be 

 despised. The formation of a " Provincial Museum" was one of the 

 objects to be promoted by the establishment of the Canadian Institute. 

 The first section of our constitution reads as follows : — " The Canadian 

 Institute has been established by Royal Charter, for the purpose of 

 promoting the Physical Sciences, for encouraging and advancing the 

 Industrial Arts and Manufactures, &c., effecting the formation of a 

 Provincial Museum, and for the purpose of facilitating the acquirement 

 and the dissemination of knowledge connected with the surveying, 

 engineering and architectural professions." 



When an institution like the University of Toronto establishes a 

 Scientific Museum on a good scale by the side of an humble collection 

 like that which the Canadian Institute, with only limited resources, 

 bas been enabled to make, the latter necessarily becomes somewhat 

 insignificant. Nevertheless there is a field which our Museum might 

 occupy. It might be made a repository of Canadian archasological and 

 historical objects. The collections in the Normal School buildings, 

 Toronto, exist expressly for educational purposes, and repay a studious 

 examination. Barnett's Museum, at the Falls of Niagara, is by no 

 means a common-place repository of objects. Some very fine genuine 

 Egyptian mummies may be seen there. Our annual Provincial Exhi- 

 bitions might also be utilized by a student visiting them with definite 

 intention and purpose. 



Now, I desire it to be observed, that in all that I have thus far said, 

 I have not supposed for a moment, that Natural Science is to be the 

 sole subject-matter of instruction or study in a system of Education. 

 I have only been insisting that in a system of Education adapted to 

 modern men. Natural Science must have its due place. 



I think morals and religion are legitimate developments of man's 

 being, and are subject to Divine law. I believe therefore that these 



