Report of Proceedings with the Papers Read at the ... Annual General Meeting Held at ...The Association, 1890 Report of the first meeting, includes a short account of the formation of the Association. |
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Page 88 - ... powerful means of aid in acquiring knowledge. Among such those who are commencing more serious studies may be included ; but I especially refer to the much more numerous class, and one which it may be hoped will year by year bear a greater relative proportion to the general population of the country, who, without having the time, the opportunities, or the abilities to make a profound study of any branch of science, yet take a general interest in its progress, and wish to possess some knowledge...
Page 22 - ... consultation or in other ways he was able, by generous and well-timed words, to strengthen their good fame. He acknowledged every favour he received; his writings contain not one sentence of detraction, but a thousand sentences displaying cordial recognition of all merit that he found in his contemporaries. Who that was good and learned in those days was not the friend of Conrad Gesner? The scholar's doors were always hospitably open. He desired to compensate for his own inability to travel by...
Page 88 - For such persons museums may be, when well organised and arranged, of benefit to a degree that at present can scarcely be realised. To diffuse knowledge among persons of this class is the second of the two purposes of museums of which I have spoken. I believe that the main cause of what may be fairly termed the failure of the majority of museums — especially museums of natural history — to perform the functions that might be legitimately expected of them is that they nearly always confound together...
Page 5 - ... Association, was held in York on, May 3. Among the Museums represented at the meeting were those of Liverpool, Manchester, York, Sheffield, Nottingham, Bolton, Bradford, Sunderland, and Warrington. It was unanimously decided that a Museum Association should be formed, and that it should consist of curators or those engaged in the active work of Museums, and also of representatives of the Committees or Councils of Management of Museums. The Association will consider (I) whether it may not be possible...
Page 63 - ... certainly taken place in the last thirty years in the tendency of the community toward collecting objects of natural history. Private collectors of shells, insects, birds, etc., were far more numerous thirty years ago than they are to-day. The same is true of England. An eminent authority laments that " private collections are failing in Liverpool and all around ; and teaching is everywhere hard and hardening in its results.
Page 11 - Editor, a Treasurer, and twelve ordinary Members ; three to constitute a quorum ; all past Presidents to be ex-officio Members of Council. The President, Vice-Presidents, and four ordinary Members of Council to retire each year, and to be ineligible for re-election for one year. 7. — The Council to be elected at the Annual General Meeting, and to hold office for one year. The Council shall have power to fill any vacancies that may occur in its ranks between Annual Meetings. At each Annual Meeting...
Page 3 - It is proposed to call a meeting of the Curators of a few provincial Museums... to discuss the possibility of obtaining... A compendious index of the contents of all provincial Museums and collections...
Page 7 - Association was decided, the following objectives of the new association were named : ( i ) Means of interchange of duplicate and surplus specimens. (2) Means of securing models, casts and reproductions. (3) Scheme for a general supply of labels, illustrations, and information. (4) Uniform plan of arranging natural history collections. (5) Scheme for securing the services of specialists. (6) Improvement of library and museum legislation. (7) The indexing of the general contents of museums. (8) The...