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the Museum. He would be ready to receive country settlers 
during their visits to town, and to instruct them practically how 
and what to collect; how to preserve specimens; to set them 
in the way of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the Natural 
Sciences, or of such of them as they might have a bias towards, 
or find it more particularly their interest to study. He would be 
at hand to solve difficulties, answer inquiries, and afford en- 
couragement. He would be librarian as well as curator, and 
introduce students to the judicious use of the works in Natural 
History placed under his charge. In due time he might become 
a Collector as well as a Curator. His first duty would be to or- 
ganize the Museum,—to provide or see provided, the requisite 
rooms, fittings, apparatus and staff. Thereafter, he might take 
occasional excursions through the province, making observations 
and collections in all departments of Natural History, or in special 
departments, sending or bringing back his collections to the 
Museum, which would always form his head-quarters. Such 
excursions would be of great importance, not only to himself, but 
to the promotion of scientific interests in the province. He 
would thus not only become thoroughly acquainted with the 
natural resources of the province, but he would personally come 
in contact with all classes of settlers, in whom he would not fail— 
in many cases at least—to inspire a certain love of, or respect for, 
Natural History, or an interest in the objects for which the 
Provincial Museum was founded, and for which he was exploring 
the country. The result would, in all probability, be, that in every 
tour or excursion he would raise up fresh friends of the Museum—- 
friends who would aid it by their subscriptions, or their contribu- 
tions of specimens—probably both. Another great advantage of 
such excursionizing would be, that he might fulfil the duties, or 
occupy the position, of a Surveying Naturalist, and that, in course 
of time, by such means, a thorough Natural History Survey of the 
province might be secured. Were the summer months, for 
example, devoted to such excursions, an assistant being left to 
manage the routine of Museum business, important results might 
in a few years be obtained. There is yet, however, other work for 
him, whereby you might still further “ get value for your money.” 
In addition to being curator of, and collector for, the Museum, as 
well as Provincial Naturalist, he might be most useful as a 
Lecturer and teacher. He might give lectures, or institute 
classes, for different sections of the community, at different hours 
of the day, or at different seasons of the year, in connection with 
the Museum, With this view, a lecture room would fall to be 
added to the accommodation proper of the Museum. By the aid of 
the diagrams now so common and so cheap, and with all the 
resources of the Museum shelves at his command, science might 
