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M. .TOSIAH ROBERTS. 
WORKS AND PAPERS REFERRED TO. 
In tliis article I have followed the plan of making references which has been 
employed by Professor Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell University. 
The following explanatory words are copied from him: 
References are made upon the following plan : the figure after the name of 
the author designates the number of the work upon the list. The last number 
denotes the page, and the middle number (in Roman letters), when there are three, 
indicates the volume. The order of enumeration has no significance.” 
1. Forbes, Edward. — On the Educational Uses of Museums. (Extract of a 
Lecture upon {Vide The Culture Demanded by Modern Life, edited by E. L. 
Youmans. New York, 1870.) 
2. Flower, W. H.—The New Natural History Museum. Nature, v ol II 
p. 01. May 26, 1870. 
3. Liebig, Justus von. — The Development of Ideas in Physical Science. 
An address delivered before the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Munich, July 
25th, 1866. ( Vide The Culture Demanded by Modern Life.) 
4. Agassiz, L.— Methods of Study in Natural History. Boston, 1873. 
5. Notes .—Popular Science Monthly. Yol. II., p. 371. 
6. Huxley, Thomas II. — On The Method of Studying Zoology. A lecture 
delivered before the science„classes at the South Kensington Museum. ( Vide The 
Culture Demanded by Modern Life. E. L. Youmans. New York, 1870.) 
7. Wilder, Burt G. — Should Comparative Anatomy be Included in a 
Medical Course? Introductory lecture at the Medical School of Maine, February, 
1877. ( Vide reprint from the New York Medical Journal , October, 1877.) 
8. Watts, William.— Natural History Museums. Letter to Nature June 
28, 1877.) 
9. Dawkins, W. Boyd.— The Need of Museum Reform. Letter to Nature 
May 31, 1877. 
10. PAPwoRTn, J. W. & W.—Museums, Libraries and Picture Galleries, 
with Illustrations. London, 1853. ( Vide Quotation from Bishop of Manchester, 
on title page.) 
11. Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam¬ 
bridge, together with the Report of the Director. Boston, 1867. 8vo., p. 37. 
( Vide Notice of in American Naturalist , vol. I., p. 387.) 
12. Dawkins, W. Boyd— The Value of Natural History Museums. Letter 
to Nature , June 7, 1877. 
13. Wilder, Burt G.—A Museum Exchange. Presented at the Detroit 
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Popular 
Science Monthly, February, 1876. 
14. Morse, E. S.—Prof. Ward’s Museum. American Naturalist, April 
1873. 
15. Solater, P. L.—On Certain Principles to be Observed in the Establish¬ 
ment of a National Museum of Natural History. A paper read before Section D, 
at the Meeting of the British Association at Liverpool, on September 16, 1870, 
{Vide Nature, vol. III. p., 455.) 
16. Nature.— Vol. II., p. 138. 
17. Huxley, Thomas II.—On the Study of Biology. A lecture delivered 
