THE 



MUSEUM GAZETTE. 



No. 10. FEBRUARY, 1907. Vol. i. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



To any subscriber to the Gazette who will name correctly 

 twelve of the Natural History objects shown in our Frontis- 

 piece we offer a selection from our Catalogue of Books, &c. 

 to the value of Five Shillings. Residents in the Haslemere 

 district will be required to name twenty-four and will not be 

 allowed to name any which cannot be identified from the 

 plate alone. 



A criticism on our remarks in last month's Gazette which 

 has appeared in the Naturalist affords us an opportunity for 

 further explanation, of which we gladly avail ourselves. 

 Our critic appears to be under the misapprehension that 

 we wish to disparage Local Museums. That is very far 

 from being the case. At Haslemere we have developed a 

 local section in an Educational Museum to the best of our 

 ability, and have constantly a local vivarium in demonstra- 

 tion, and recurring special exhibitions of local objects. We 

 have urged that every Educational Museum ought to have 

 its local department. Our protest is against the unwisdom 

 of making museums designed to be educational exclusively 

 local. Local museums are exceedingly good, but Educational 

 Museums with local departments are, we think, far better. 



Perhaps after all there is a fundamental misunderstanding 

 as to what is meant by a " Local Museum." We understand 



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