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A MANUAL OF 
MUSEUM METHODS 
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK DEALING WITH THE VARIOUS 
BRANCHES OF MUSEUM WORK AND ADMINISTRATION 
By THOMAS SHEPPARD 
M.Sc., F.G.S., Etc. 
PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION 
EDITOR OF ‘ THE NATURALIST ’ AND OF VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 
AND AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS VOLUMES ON HISTORICAL, GEOLOGICAL, 
NATURAL HISTORY, AND LITERARY SUBJECTS. 
Cloth Gilt , Demy 8vo. Illustrated. 
Mr. Sheppard, with his wide knowledge of British and Foreign Museums, 
is peculiarly qualified to write this Museum Manual. He has also prob- 
ably had more experience of Museum work than anyone else in the country, 
having inaugurated the Municipal Museum of Archaeology and Applied Art 
at Hull ; the Hull Natural History Museum ; Wilberforce House, the 
Hull Historical Museum ; the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping, Hull ; 
and the Mortimer Museum of Prehistoric Archaeology and Geology (formerly 
at Driffield), now at Hull. He has also in hand a Folk-lore Museum and 
a War Memorial Museum. He is the Hon. Curator of the Scunthorpe 
Museum, and was consulted by the Corporations of Doncaster, Beverley, 
etc., in connection with the formation and arrangement of the Museums 
in those towns. 
GRAFTON & CO., 7 and 8 Coptic Street, London, W.C.i 
BOOKS FOR SALE. 
FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE WM. HEWETT, YORK. 
Offers are invited for the entire Collection of British Noctuidae and 
Geometrise, contained in a 5 ft. Mahogany Cabinet of 23 glass framed drawers, 
30 in. by 20 in. The Collection comprises about 5,500 specimens, all in good 
condition, including many fine series of rare and local insects. Grossulariata 
(black varieties), Ulmata (Sledmere forms), etc. Also Collection of Guillemot 
and Razorbill Eggs. 
The Entomologist, 1890. 
Entom. Record, 1890-1891 ; 1891 ; 1892; 1894. 
The Naturalist, 13 vols. 
Hints to Field Lepidopterists , 2 vols. 
Manual of Botany (Balfour). 
Geographical Distribution of Animals (Wallace), 2 vols. 
Natural History Journal, 5 vols., 77 to 82. 
Tutt’s British Lepidoptera, Vols. 1 to 5, and Vol. 8. 
Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 2 vols. 
Cave Hunting (Dawkins). 
British Barrows (Green well and Rolleston). 
Familiar Wild Birds (Swaysland), 4 vols. 
Introduction to Entomology (Kirby & Spence), 4 vols. 
Fifty -two Nature Rambles (P. Westell). 
Nature Tones and Undertones (Boraston). 
Apply to Mrs. HEWETT, 12 Howard Street, York. 
