THE 



MUSEUM GAZETTE 



No. 7. NOVEMBER, 1906. Vol. i. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



An institution which has flourished at Horsham for the 

 past twelve years has for its name " The Museum Society." 

 This is an excellent name. It suggests comprehensiveness, 

 and recognises the importance of a central home for the 

 results of observation and research. It would be well if there 

 were " Museum Societies" in all towns and in many villages. 



The Museum Gazette was not projected with any design 

 on money profit. We do not, however, mind confessing that 

 thus far it threatens to involve a larger loss than is pleasant. 

 We are told that our title is unfortunate, since the public is 

 slow to accept the word Museum in the large and liberal 

 sense in which we employ it. We include under that term 

 all departments of real knowledge, but the public thinks 

 rather of mere collections of beetles, stuffed birds, and 

 fragments of rock. From our readers we receive constantly 

 letters of warm congratulation and thanks, but the names of 

 new subscribers come less freely than we could wish. Will 

 our friends kindly make known as widely as possible amongst 

 their friends that the Museum Gazette contains in addition 

 to stores of fact on the most various scientific and natural 

 history subjects, Biographical summaries and Historical 

 memoranda, that it is well illustrated by Portraits ; that it 

 affords guidance as to the choice of Food, and that its great 

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