 A museum is like a living organism — it requires continual and tender care. It must grow, or it will perish; and the cost and labour required to maintain it in a state of vitality is not yet by any means fully realised or provided for, either in our...  The Electrical Engineer - Seite 1971889Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1890 - 1130 Seiten
...museum a byword and a reproach, hindering instead of advancing the recognition of their value as agente in the great educational movement of the age. A museum...continual and tender care. It must grow, or it will 232 September 21, 188».] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. perish ; and the cost and labour... | |
 | Charles John Cornish - 1904 - 310 Seiten
...contents of an ancient British barrow to the last-discovered bird of paradise from New Guinea. ... A museum is like a living organism. It requires continual...it in a state of vitality is not yet by any means realised or provided for either in our great national establishments or in our smaller local institutions.... | |
 | 1910 - 1140 Seiten
...Furthermore, facilities must be allowed to those who wish to make special study of the objects on view. y: 1 XI:Ç2 s v ! 0 ¼t >/ 4 >\V ! m M N V , ɶ ֚ #2 - ޮ K Qm =. [Z v ) % " (Flower, p. 13). Great progress has been made in the classification of objects, a highly important... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - 1078 Seiten
...Furthermore, facilities must be allowed to those who wish to make special study of the objects on view. " A museum is like a living organism: it requires continual and tender care; it must grow, or it will perish " (Flower, p. 13). Great progress has been made in the classification of objects, a highly important... | |
 | 1912 - 540 Seiten
...knowledge of the curator and his ability to apply that knowledge in the arrangement of his collections. A Museum is like a, living organism, it requires continual...and tender care. It must grow or it will perish, and great cost and labour are required to maintain it in a state of vitality. I would urge upon any Museum... | |
 | Ken Arnold - 2006 - 320 Seiten
...increasingly felt to be a problem. As long ago as 1898, William Fowler in his Essays on Museums asserted that "a museum is like a living organism: it requires continual...and tender care; it must grow, or it will perish". Museums have also capitalised on the interest inherent in self-consciously parading, examining and... | |
 | 1904 - 844 Seiten
...present day, involves an immense amount of labour. It was a remark of the late Sir William Flower, that "a museum is like a living organism — it requires...continual and tender care. It must grow or it will perish."47 No words could be more just. However carefully a collection may be arranged, it will, if... | |
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