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(1859) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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EDUCATIONAL MUSEUMS.

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in which the student can find that which is essential at
the very outset of his study—a series of rocks, arranged
and clearly catalogued in the order of natural
superposition ; the specimens selected to exhibit the most
common mineralogical and palæontological characteristics
—the fossils in as fragmentary and imperfect a condition
as the student will actually find them when he goes
abroad with his hammer ? A few visits, of two or three
hours each, to such a museum, would afford an amount
of real information not attainable in as many months
otherwise. After such a course, he might be let loose
among the hills, where he could then work profitably.
Natural history can never become popular until every
branch of it is illustrated by such elementary museums;
the cost of which, from the abundance of the required
materials, would be so trifling, that every town with ten
thousand inhabitants might have a good one. Museums
for rarities and choice specimens might, of course, be
adjoined to them where practicable.

That natural history should be popular, that a general
knowledge of its great facts, and of the physical and

many of which are so exquisitely beautiful, regarded as mere
crystalline forms. I have often thought that the wilderness of untenanted
galleries of the Crystal Palace might be cheaply and easily turned, to
account, by draping their sides with pictures and diagrams
representing experiments and natural phenomena, illustrating a popular
course on natural philosophy and its application to meteorology,
physical geography, &c. &c. If such diagrams were accompanied
with descriptive matter written beneath in letters so large that those
who run might read, they would be highly attractive and most
valuable. The success of the Kensington Museum shows that tliis sort
of demonstrative instruction through the sense of sight is very
popular.

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