The Museum Gazette 



lead him back from the specimen to his book. The Museum 

 at Haslemere has, perhaps more definitely than any other, 

 aimed at educational developments. The Museum and the 

 Journal will be alike in this, that they are designed, not so 

 much to assist the formation of new knowledge as to promote 

 the wide diffusion of what is already known. Their objects 

 are strictly educational, understanding that word in its widest 

 sense, but with especial reference to objective aids. Our 

 pages will not contain any lengthy original articles, nor 

 will they ever attempt the exhaustive exposition of any one 

 subject. We shall be frankly fragmentary, here a little and 

 there a little, but not we trust, without constant endeavour to 

 display the relationships of our different topics and to weave 

 them together as a connected whole. 



Amongst the special headings under which the contents of 

 the Gazette will be arranged the following may be men- 

 tioned : — 



Extracts from Expository Lectures delivered in the Museum, and 

 Notes for Lectures. 



Descriptions of Typical Museum Specimens, so written and 

 printed that they may easily be cut out and used as Labels. 



Notes of Field Natural History, under the title of our Gilbert 

 White column. 



A Lexicon Page, with the object of giving familiar definitions 

 of such technical words as we cannot avoid the use of. 

 Astronomical and Geological Notes. 



A Portrait Gallery. — Under this heading especial attention 

 will be given to the history of race and the conditions which 

 influence alike physiognomy and character. 



Maps and Chronological Statements will be freely introduced. In 

 connection with the latter, as well as with biography, we 

 shall constantly use, and strongly advocate, the " space-for- 

 time " method. 



The Vivarium. — Under this heading will be specified the 

 objects which may be instructively exhibited in a living state 

 from month to month. 



