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of any art collection, and no success could be achieved unless 
the directors of such institutions stood fast by two funda- 
mental axioms : “ Show things to the best advantages ; and 
have only the best to show.” As to what had been done in 
Manchester to make their galleries more attractive educationally 
he quoted the fact that special lectures are given, exhibitions 
held, special parties conducted round, and even elementary 
talks on art provided for as many as 1000 children per day. * 
These are the sort of criticisms we heard when the Museums 
Association was founded, somewhere about 30 years ago. It 
Is also encouraging to learn that Mr. Haward has at last 
realized the advantage of lectures to scholars, and has intro- 
duced the system in his gallery at Manchester. But had his 
knowledge been as great as his innocence, he would have known 
that many of the provincial museums he so unjustly criticises 
have been giving lectures to scholars, probably since the day 
Mr. Haward was born — if not before. 
ART CURATORS r 
The report goes on to say that ‘ Sir Whitworth Wallace, 
Director of Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum, said they 
would never have the right sort of art collections until they 
got a very different class of curators from that to which the 
provinces has been accustomed. The curator must be a 
man of enough taste and culture to be a dictator. “ It is not 
what you accept,” he added, “ that will make your art gallery, 
but what you have the courage to refuse.” ’ As in this case 
Sir Whitworth confines his remarks to Art Gallery Curators, 
(and, though a Museum Director, makes no comment on the 
ways of museums, as such), we are able to endorse his remarks, 
.and say ‘ Amen/ betimes, lest the devil cross our prayer. 
YORKSHIRE GLACIAL GEOLOGY. 
There has been some discussion— after the style of those 
of a quarter of a century ago, between the last of the ‘ sub- 
mergers ’ and the new school of land-ice glacialists — in The 
Geological Magazine recently, as the result of a somewhat 
unexpected paper by one of our leading geologists, Prof. J. 
W. Gregory. Prof. Gregory’s generalisation, as was the case 
with Prof. Bonney’s Presidential Address to the British 
Association at Sheffield in 1910,* and a certain memoir dealing 
with the drainage system of East Yorkshire, published in 1885, 
puts back the clock of geological progress at least twenty 
years. It seems unfair that after the hard work of a whole 
band of earnest workers — amateur and professional — a paper 
on broad general lines by a prominent geologist, who ad- 
mittedly is as unfamiliar with the work in the field as he is 
* See The Naturalist, 1910, pp. 351-357. 
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