a IReview of IFtatural Science, 
Yol. III., No. 25. 
MALTA, AUGUST 1st. 1893. 
5/- Per annum. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
1 Wanted— A. museum for Malta 387 
.2 Artificially coloured flowers 389 
3 Petroleum Theories 389 
1 Resoconto di una escursione fatta alle grotte di Iso- 
verdc in Liguria da Emilio Balbi ed A. Caruana 
Gatt 389 
5 On Fuligula ruflna in Malta— N. Tagliaferro 391 
G City Dust 392 
7 La Botanique du Nord Etbai— E. A. Floyer 392 
8 The Orange Disease in Cape Colony— S. D. Bair- 
stove, F.L.S. 394 
9 Colours of Ancient Egypt 399 
10 A Modern Golgotha— Minnie Cooke 400 
11 The Collection and preparation of foraminifera— E. 
Halkyard, F.R.M.S. 401 
12 Deep Sea Exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean 402 
13 On the Occurrence of Concretionary masses of Flint 
& Chert in the Maltese Limestones. J. H. Cooke 403 
14 Notes and 'News. 405 
15 Maltese Meteorology 440 
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A Museum for Malta. 
The number of the systems of education that 
are now in vogue in Europe and America is legion; 
but numerous as they are, and varied as are the 
methods that are adopted in the working of them, 
it requires but a cursory glance to perceive that 
they all possess something in common which tends 
to induce between the advocates of each system 
a sympathetic and helpful spirit towards one 
another. They have universally adopted the same 
ideal, an ideal the essence of the spirit of which 
is life, rather than livelihood , — an ideal that re- 
quires them to impart a generous education such 
as is worthy of the inherent worth and dignity of 
man, and which at the same time affords the 
means for the development of the humanity of 
every individual of the community. 
This principle is now so generally recognized 
that there is no country of importance where 
adequate provision is not made, not only for those 
branches of education which train the individual 
in the best methods for acquiring wealth, but also 
for that which has for its aim the general enlighten 
merit of the masses. 
In every city of Europe institutions in which 
the main object in view is the cultivation of powers 
of accurate observation, and of habits of careful 
enquiry are now recognized and supported as 
constituting an important factor in the education 
of the people. 
Museums of various descriptions have been 
formed in which collections of natural products 
are carefully and systematically arranged, and 
accompanied by all particulars relating to their 
properties, the purposes to which they can be 
applied, and the processes whereby they may be 
rendered the most serviceable: the whole being 
! presented in such a manner as to be intelligible to 
the average intellect. Institutions of this descrip- 
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