Report of Proceedings: With the Papers Read at the ... Annual General Meeting, Volume 2The Association, 1891 - Museum techniques Report of the first meeting, includes a short account of the formation of the Association. |
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Page 123 - ALL powers given by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by Act of Parliament law or custom, and such other powers may be exercised in the same manner as if this Act had not passed ; and nothing in this Act shall exempt any person from any penalty to which he would have been subject if this Act had not passed. Provided that no person who has been adjudged to pay any penalty in pursuance of this Act shall for the same offence...
Page 121 - A museum provided under this Act shall be open to the public not less than three days in every week free of charge, but subject thereto an urban authority may admit any person or class of persons thereto as they think fit, and may charge fees for such admission, or may grant the use of the same or of any room therein, either gratuitously or for payment, to any person for any lecture or exhibition or for any purpose of education or instruction.
Page 122 - ... and may charge fees for such admission, or may grant the use of the same or of any room therein, either gratuitously or for payment, to any person for any lecture or exhibition, or for any purpose of education or instruction, and the admission to the museum or room the use of which is so granted may be either with or without payment as directed by the urban authority, or with the consent of the urban authority by the person to whom the use of the museum or room is granted.
Page 122 - Authority by the person to whom the use of the same is granted. Regulations and Bye-laws. 7. (1.) An Urban Authority may make regulations for all or any of the following matters, namely : — (a.) For fixing the days of the week or hours of the day, as the case may be, during which the Museum or Gymnasium is to be open to the public free of charge...
Page 35 - ... of the foetus by a wyer. the other is a young linet, which being first embowel'd, hath been preserved sound and entire, in rectified spirit of wine, for the space of 17 years. Given by the Honourable Mr. Boyl. Who, so far as I know, was the first that made trial of preserving animals this way. An experiment of much use. As for the preserving of all sorts of worms, caterpillars, and other soft insects in their natural bulk and shape, which otherwise shrink up, so as nothing can be observed of...
Page 17 - In disputandi pruritum et inanes theologorum controversias." intended profession ; and therefore proceeded in drugs as he had done in herbs, and in all pharmacopoeias, acquainting himself with apothecary shops' and the nature of compounded medicines, chymical experiments, &c. ; and in anatomy he was the most exquisite inquirist of his time, leaving no anatomist unread nor secret unsearched, insomuch that he was invited by some learned persons in other colleges many years his senior to shew them vividisections...
Page 17 - One morning having been busy in his chamber with anatomising a dog, and coming to dinner into the college hall, a dog there smelling the steams of his murdered companion upon his clothes, accosted him with such an unusual bawling in the hall that all the boys fell a laughing, perceiving what he had been a doing, which put him to the blush.
Page 32 - Argument, That the enumeration of these Rarities, (being more for variety than any one place known in Europe could afford) would be an honour to our Nation, and a benefit to such ingenious persons as would become further enquirers into the various modes of Natures admirable workes, and the curious Imitators...
Page 81 - ... advanced student, the man who has already become acquainted with the elements of his science and is in a position, by his knowledge, by his training, and by his observing and reasoning capacity, to take advantage of such material to carry on the subject to a point beyond that at which he takes it up. But there is another and a far larger class to whom museums are, or should be, a powerful means of aid in acquiring knowledge. Among such, those who are commencing more serious studies may be included...
Page 32 - Tradescantus pater' and the other of 'Joannes Tradescantus filius,' by Hollar. These two appear to have been the collectors : for John Tradescant, the son, writes in his address " to the ingenious reader " that he " was resolved to take a catalogue of those varieties and curiosities which my father had scedulously collected, and my selfe with continued diligence have augmented, and hitherto preserved together.