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Notes and Comments . 
Scarborough : probably it is altogether older, as the ammonites 
of the two places have hardly anything in common. Two 
other Yorkshire species are figured : Nautilus chalcedonicus 
Young and Bird, from Thornton, and Ammonites putealis 
Leckenby, from Scarborough. We note two misprints — 
Morriceras for Morrisiceras on PI. 285, and Condioceratan for 
Cardioceratan on PI. 295c ; while the new trivial name comma 
is not given its due prominence in Clarendon type in the 
Contents . — A . M . D . 
ART GALLERIES. 
We learn from the press that at a recent meeting of the 
Society of Arts, Mr. L. Haward, of the Manchester Art Gallery, 
read a paper on the ‘ Lack of definite policy in the selection 
and display of many provincial collections of pictures and 
antiques.’ Judging from the newspaper reports, the address 
was very similar to that given by Mr. Haward at the Museums 
Associarion Conference at Paris last year, when it cut no ice. 
It has since appeared in The Museums Journal, but has 
caused no great stir there, simply because, while Mr. Haward 
may be an excellent Art Curator, he knows nothing of museums. 
His ideas thereon are at least half a century old, and his 
opinions, consequently, have received the consideration they 
deserve at the hands of Museum Directors. 
MUSEUMS AND THEIR CONTENTS. 
Judging from the following press report, his knowledge of 
provincial collections, if not extensive, is at least peculiar. He 
says, ‘ Some of these are “ graced with the courtesy title of 
museums, but are in reality little more than glorified curiosity 
shops.” Of worthy collections, however, he instanced the 
Burne-Jones drawings, and works of the pre-Raphaelite school 
at Birmingham ; the paintings by old masters in the Roscoe 
Collection at Liverpool ; the work of the Norwich School at 
Norwich ; the Wilson, Millais, and Madox Brown pictures at 
Manchester ; the English glass and silver in the same gallery ; 
the historical collection of local pottery at Burslem and at 
Leeds ; the Wrights at Derby ; the miniatures at Bath ; and 
the representative examples of the best English painting of the 
last hundred years at Bradford, Oldham, Newcastle, and other 
galleries/ This particular selection would be amusing were it 
not so pathetic. 
MUSEUMS AND LECTURES. 
Following on the report, we learn that ' where many of 
our museums failed, he said, the cause of failure was that the 
local town council often accepted en bloc, without any dis- 
crimination, whatever any wealthy citizen of omniverous 
taste cared to bestow upon it. This was fatal to the value 
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