ABSTRACT
The Museums Association is one of the youngest of the numerous social organisations which it is thought expedient at the present day to constitute, in order to give facilities for the interchange of ideas on subjects interesting to a special group of men. In specimens illustrating biological subjects the highest powers of the museum curator are called forth. A properly-mounted animal or a carefully-displayed anatomical preparation is in itself a work of art, based upon a natural substratum. The fundamental idea of a plan is that the whole of the building should be divided by lines intersecting at right angles, like the warp and the woof of a piece of canvas. The main rooms should all have a good substantial gallery running round them, by means of which their wall space is doubled. The majority of museums in country localities require little, if anything, beyond the exhibition series.
