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for the old cases. " One lias to stoop considerably to see the shells 

 down there," remarked a lad}- visitor recently, pointing to a lower 

 part of an upright, "and I think they were better arranged be- 

 fore." » 



The missing case, which held the Eocene and Miocene fossils 

 from the United States, turned up empt}'— probably the contents 

 were mistaken for modern sea-shells and may be found promiscu- 

 ously mingled with specimens of land snails, fresh water ones, 

 etc. They are all shell-6sh. Why should not the same case 

 hold all? 



Everyone knows the place used as the cit}- museum is un- 

 suited for a lecture-room or the display of the annual camera ex- 

 hibition in addition. Surely for the very slight space secured 

 members of the Council must see it was scarcely worth the object 

 gained to destro}' in a great measure the work of the Geological 

 Section. We were gradually replacing the collection of modern 

 sea-shells and Indian relics Mrs. Care}' removed to Dundurn. 

 Further additions are rendered impossible. This may be said also 

 of the entire collection. As far as the writer can see the Museum, 

 as such, has passed out of existence. To all intents and purposes 

 it is what a Smithsonian professor calls a dead one. 



How can any additions be made in future to cases overcrowded 

 already ? And the Council blocks the waj^ to any further con- 

 tributions. 



A departed Museum needs no Curator. 



