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Friday, August 23, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



The Belalionships and Besponsibilitles of Museums : 

 G. Brown Goode .197 



TTie Processes of Life Revealed by the Microscope : 

 Simon Henry Gage 209 



Consciousness and Evolution: J. Mark Bald win.. .219 



The Science of Examining : Peter T. Austen 22.3 



The ' New Race ' in Egyptian History : D. G. Brin- 

 TON 227 



Current Notes on Physiography {XIV.): — 228 



Poreaw's Expedition into the Sahara; Laccolitic 

 Mountain Groups ; Tlie Run-off of Rivers : W. M. 

 Davis. 



Scientific N'otes and News : — 229 



The British 3Iedical Association ; Section C, Chem- 

 istry, of the A. A. A. S. ; The Botanical Society of 

 America ; Vital Statistics of New England ; Gen- 

 eral. 



University and Educational News 233 



Correspondence: — 234 



A New Bibliographical Bureau for Zoology : Hbe- 

 beet Haviland Field. 



Scientific Literature : — 237 



Jaccard's Lepetrole., I'asphalte et le bitume: S. F. 

 Peckham; Hmvarth^s Glacial Nightmare and the 

 Flood: J. W. Spencer; Talbot's Etiology of Os- 

 seus Defmtnities: Charles L. Dana; Double 

 Refraction in Wood : WILLIAM Hallock ; 3Iag- 

 netic Declination in Alaska: h. A. Bauer. 



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THE RELA TIONSHIPS AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

 OF MUSEUMS.'''' 



In an article on ' The use and abuse of 

 Museums,' written nearly fifteen years ago 



* Part of a paper on ' The Principles of Museum 

 Administration, ' read before the Museums Association, 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, July 23, 1895. 



by Professor William Stanley Jevons, atten- 

 tion was directed to the circumstance that 

 there was not, at that time, in the English 

 language a treatise analyzing the purposes 

 and kinds of museums, and discussing the 

 general principles of their management and 

 economy. It is somewhat surprising that 

 the need then made so evident has not since 

 been supplied and that there is not at the 

 present day such a treatise in the English 

 or any other language. Many important 

 papers have in the interval been printed in 

 regard to particular classes of museums and 

 special branches of museum work, l^otable 

 among these have been those written by 

 Sir William H. Flower, Professor W. A. 

 Herdman, Dr. J. S. Billings, Dr. H. H. 

 Higgins, Dr. Albert Giinther and General 

 Pitt Rivers, and there fiad previously been 

 printed the well known essay of Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, Edward Forbes' suggestive paper on 

 ' Educational Uses of Museums,' in ,1853, 

 and the still earlier one by Edward Edwards 

 on ' The Maintenance and Management of 

 Public Galleries and Museums,' printed in 

 1840. 



No one has as yet attempted, however, 

 even in a preliminary way, to formulate a 

 general theory of administration applicable 

 to museum work in all its branches, except 

 Professor Jevons, who, in the paper already 

 referred to, presented in an exceedingly 

 impressive manner certain ideas which 

 should underlie such a theory. 



