INDIA MUSEUM'S FATE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 10

INDIA MUSEUM'S FATE.

CONTEMPLATED DISPERSAL OF THE ■,'.. •.-. -: CQLLEOTION. : The contents of the India Museum, a magnificent collection of objects of Eastern art and .a monument of our Empire in' the East. — : it has been in process oft building up since the days of .Cliye—are about to be dispersed. ■ The museum is at present located at South .Kensington, but in oonnection with the arrangement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum a- committee was recently appointed by the Board'' of Education to deal.with the future place of the collection. . ; ■ '. This committee recommended.that the,museum should be broken up into three sections', /and the" plan; .has been approved by the Board .'of. Ediicatibn-and'.tho';lridia.':'.Ofricp. . "• '■ ,- Professor .Boyd '■ .Dawkins;'. 'of Manchester. iTJiiiversityJ; iii; An': interview recently•-.likened • the; breaking up;of the museum to the sepa-ration.-of: a;page;of.'type;'all the !'A's" being:'placed the."B's" in anr other, atid.so.oil. '~.,:;. '■; '„ :, Professor Dawkins _ pointed out; two ex,amples of. historical .importance "of the. 'museum, the value. of. which'wcmld be disa„disMsS%V,aj(&illl!sh'e - .articles. '.'Among the musical instruments' is a kind of organ in the shape of, a'tiger eating up an English -officer; '•• This'-article,' made for Tip; poo 'Sahib," tells"its own' tale, of -'one of the'i 'earliest,phases : 'of,; Occupation-. | Then there! is the ithrono.'of the last-Mogul Emperor,' taken'at : the memorable siece of Delhi, and; representing- an ; incident of the mutinyi.which must; appeal to-all Englishmen. ~ ,:, ~,; , .; . . ;<. .-■ ':-■• '.' "';'.: >;, ■■'"