THE HASLEMERE 



MUSEUM GAZETTE. 



No. i. MAY, 1906. Vol. i. 



PROSPECTIVE— OUR OBJECTS. 



Amongst the objects chiefly aimed at by the Museum 

 Gazette will be that encouraging the formation of Educa- 

 tional Museums and of making museums of all kinds more 

 attractive and more profitable to those who visit them. We 

 shall not be in any sense exclusive. We propose to refer in 

 turn to the contents of the Zoological Gardens, the British 

 Museum, the South Kensington Collections, the British 

 Portrait Gallery and the National collections of pictures in 

 Trafalgar Square and at Millbank. Nor will our interest be 

 restricted to Metropolitan institutions. Our design is not 

 to compile catalogues but to deal in general terms with the 

 various topics which come under notice. Thus, we venture 

 to hope that our remarks may prove alike useful to those 

 who may visit the splendid collections which are now to be 

 found in many of our British Provincial cities. We shall 

 endeavour to write alike for the schoolmaster, the private 

 collector and the home student and to make our Journal a 

 help to the acquisition of objective, or first-hand, information 

 from whatever quarter it may be obtained and by whom- 

 soever it may be desired. Our aim will be to encourage 

 observation of the things themselves rather than mere book 

 study. Our title connotes our undertaking. We hope to, 

 attract the student from his book to the specimen and tp 

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