Museum Reform

Abstract

No one acquainted with the condition of the greater proportion of our provincial museums can do otherwise than confess with sorrow that much of what is alleged against them in the paper of Mr. Boyd Dawkins is too true. While fully concurring in all he says as to the actual state of matters in these amorphous receptacles of curiosities and conceits, and as to the crying need for reform, you will perhaps allow me to make a few comments as to the causes which contribute to keep museum collections in their present disreputable condition, and the means by which they may be worthily organised, and raised to their high and proper position among the educational agencies of the country.