THE MUSEUM.

Evening Star, Issue 3231, 28 June 1873, Page 2

THE MUSEUM.

To the Editor, Sir,—l was greatly pleased to read your correspondent “ Octagon’s ”. letter in this evening’s Star. I have long been impressed with the disgraceful state of our Museum, and have frequently felt very small when visitors from Christchurch have expatiated on the excellence of their institution. ( The cause of this unpleasant state of affairs is not difficult to ascertain, and is, in my opinion, to be explained by the fact that this Govern* ment establishment gets little or no share of the public funds. Now that the Province need not be afraid of their banker, the very least the Council could do would be to vote five or six hundred a-year for the Museum. The one in Christchurch cost the Canterbury public two or three times that amount. Then there is no one to take any manage ment of our Museum that I know of. The Professor of Natural Sciences in our University might be appointed custodian, or the control might be handed over to the Council of the Otago Institute, or even to the Field Naturalists’ Club. To either of these bodies such a work should be a labor of it might help to reuse the former from its apapparently dormant condition. The neglect of the Museum by the powers that Wtfclls against It .in many ways,* A

r Jetties are fonfaeded in WeiliOfctpn, and lost ip the to which t^P^aglad hlr&en broached, and hope that it wUlnot fallowed to rest tillsomethjng done.—llwy&a. ; . i / Kiwi. J«Bae2|7r '>■' / '_v"- ' - - -