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But whatever is done must be well done. It must be a good 
thing. There must be plenty of space, plenty of room for develop- 
ment and increase. Let me briefly point out how I think such a 
Museum and Schools should be planned.* The basis should be 
of course local, but there should be also a thoroughly good typical 
Museum. This would not be necessarily extensive, but it should 
be made as complete as possible, so as to illustrate the more 
restricted fauna and flora, fossil and recent, which would constitute 
the chief part of the Museum, to the perfecting of which the 
energies of those having charge of it would necessarily be 
directed. 
The departments would be — 
1. Mineralogy, crystallography, and petrology, and the com- 
mercial relations of each should be illustrated. 
2. Paleontology ; the fauna and flora arranged stratagraphically. 
3. Botany. There would not only be the herbarium, but careful 
preparations in spirits and otherwise of fruits, seeds, and so on, 
would be exhibited. A cabinet of microscopical slides of the 
smaller species would be also necessary. 
4. Zoology. This would be an important department, more 
especially with our extensive seaboard. It seems to me that a 
room devoted to marine zoology alone, properly arranged, would be 
a magnificent one, and one that would amply repay any labour 
that might be expended upon it. In connection with zoology 
would be the department of comparative anatomy — dissections, 
bones, internal structure, pathology. 
5. Ethnological collections would follow. 
6. Then Archaeology, pre-historic and historic. 
7. There should be an Aquarium attached for show and study. 
8. And lastly, a working room with what are now known as 
zoological tables, provided with microscopes and instruments for 
biological students • and attached to this would be a Zoological 
Library, with works of reference. 
The Art Gallery would be an altogether separate department. In 
addition to the permanent collection, the getting together of which 
would be a work of time, space should be reserved for the purposes 
of an Annual Exhibition of paintings by local artists, loan collec- 
tions, and special exhibitions. 
* I have followed with some alterations the plan suggested by Professor 
Boyd Dawkins. 
