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(Natural History), where the admirable handbooks issued in each 
section are taken paragraph by paragraph, and each statement made 
in the whole description is represented by a real object by its side, 
so marked by coloured papers, arrows, and guiding lines that 
a student who works through the cases in succession follows 
a natural sequence of treatment under scientific guidance. 
He suggested that each town should have a collection strictly 
limited to the natural objects which are commonly found in its 
neighbourhood, the flora and fauna being separate, and that in 
every museum there should be a large geological map of the area, 
with suitable vertical sections, showing the connection between 
the underground conditions and the variety of life on the surface ; 
and he discussed the question whether we should take the specimens 
to the classes in schools, or take the classes to the specimens in the 
museums, expressing himself in favour of the latter alternative. 
All museums should, he said, he provided with meteorological 
instruments, and lectures should be given on the elementary laws 
of meteorology and the use of these instruments ; and all museums 
should have lecture-rooms with lanterns and other appliances for 
demonstration. The equally important requirement of an adequate 
scientific library, especially of books describing and illustrating our 
indigenous flora and fauna, was not alluded to. 
In the course of the discussion your Delegate referred to the 
Hertfordshire County Museum. Nearly one-half of the visitors 
were, he said, school children. They came in from the Board 
Schools during meal-times, and quickly detected any additions made 
to the collections. Sometimes they brought things which they had 
collected, such as shells, at first with the living animals in them, 
but they were instructed how to remove them, and were now 
bringing clean shells and sometimes really good specimens of the 
land and freshwater Mollusca of the neighbourhood. This showed 
how a museum would attract children and no doubt produce good 
educational results. 
The establishment of school museums was advocated by several 
speakers, and the circulation amongst schools of small loan-collections 
was also suggested. 
Second Meeting. 
A Committee, consisting of Principal Griffiths, Mr. Budler, and 
Mr. Whitaker, was appointed to confer with the Council as to 
the relations between the British Association and local scientific 
societies. 
Principal Griffiths then vacated the chair, which was taken by 
the Yice-Chairman, Dr. Tempest Anderson. 
Your Delegate introduced the subject chosen at his suggestion for 
discussion at this meeting—“The Conformity of the Publications 
of Scientific Societies with certain Bibliographical Bequirements ”— 
with the following remarks :— 
A few years ago I suggested for discussion at our Conference the 
subject of Dew-ponds. We had a very interesting discussion upon 
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