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With regard to the arrangement of subordinate parts in a 
museum, that which is now being carried out in the new 
Imperial Museum, at Vienna, under D)\ Hochstetter, seems to 
me the best; to form one lineal series, inorganic objects 
forming the base, then Palaeontological specimens, illustrating 
the life which has been, and leading up to the illustrations 
of the life which is now on the earth. Botany, Zoology, 
Anatomy, and the like. When this is completed, the 
Museum at Vienna will present a more perfect and com- 
plete history of the knowledge of the earth and its inhabi- 
tants than has, as yet, been presented. 
In the City of Lyons, which in its commercial aspects 
resembles Manchester, the collections are lodged in a 
magnificent building — the Palais des Beaux Arts — sup- 
ported by the municipality, and are being largely increased 
by the contributions of local naturalists, who have banded 
themselves together for that purpose, under the title of 
‘‘Les Amis des Science Naturelles.” I hope to live to see 
the day when a plan similar to that of the Museum in 
Vienna will be carried out in Manchester, and when our 
Museum will be a centre around which our naturalists will 
rally, as at Lyons. 
8. A Museum necessary in Manchester. 
It is certainly very strange that in a city where various 
branches of knowledge have been endowed by private mu- 
nificence for the common weal, a Museum should be wanting, 
which ought to be a powerful agent in the general education 
of the people; and not merely, as is sometimes the case, the 
spoil and prey of a few specialists. Museums are rapidly 
becoming as indespensible in the advancement of culture 
as libraries, and are so recognised in all civilised countries 
except our own. It is a poor consolation to know that in 
this particular we are not worse off than the majority of our 
