A Letter to Benjamin Hawes, Esq. M.P.: Being Strictures on the "minutes of Evidence" Taken Before the Select Committee on the British Museum : with an Appendix, Containing Heads of Inquiry Respecting the Improvements of the Museum, &c. &c

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E. Wilson, 1836 - 60 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 6 - Of these the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons are termed the Principal Trustees.
الصفحة 7 - ... distinct from the other parts of the museum ; and there should be at least four enlightened and literary men of ability, to take charge of these treasures, now made so magnificent by the royal gift, and to lay them open to the public. " It appears to me that the present is the best moment for attempt, ing a radical and fundamental change in every thing belonging to this ancient, misapplied, and, I may almost say, useless institution.
الصفحة 36 - It is not rich in manuscripts, and many other libraries surpass it in typographical rarities, and specimens of typographical luxury ; but none contains so great a number of really useful books in any given branch of knowledge. The principle on which they proceed is, to collect the solid learning and...
الصفحة 6 - ... applied. When the British Museum was first established, in consequence of the bequest of Sir Hans Sloane, President of the Royal Society, of his splendid collections to the country, the trustees were either great officers of state, owing their situation to their office, or some persons of science, art, and letters, associated with them, elected by the principal trustees. At first, the leading trustees of the elected class were either distinguished members of the Royal Society, or highly accomplished...
الصفحة 7 - ... collections, or as zoologists, ornithologists, entomologists, mineralogists, botanists, and superintendents of the ancient collections of sculpture and painting : and if the salaries of such officers had been made respectable, and their rank a gratifying or enviable one, there would have been always a sufficient number of aspirants after such situations, and we should not have required the assistance of foreigners in that establishment which ought to be the natural school of our academies in...
الصفحة 10 - Imperialism and Consumerism: Class and Gender Distinctions within a National Culture "Do you mean to say, that the behavior of the public, generally, is such as it ought to be in viewing the Museum?" "Yes, the ignorant are brought into awe by what they see about them, and the better informed know, of course, how to conduct themselves. We have common policemen, soldiers, sailors, artillerymen, livery servants, and, of course, occasionally mechanics, but their good conduct I am very much pleased to...
الصفحة 6 - Woodhouse, who brought a letter of introduction to my brother in 1804 from the venerable Priestley : — " I believe no country can be placed lower than our own in respect to collections in ancient art or modern science. A few liberal-minded patriotic men have done much by their private collections ; and some particular institutions or colleges, by their private means, have afforded resources to scientific men ; but our national establishment, the British Museum, is unworthy of a great people, and...
الصفحة 18 - ... the four walls of the library would have startled and benumbed everyone in authority — and without authority — from the members of the governing board to librarian, sub-librarians, and messenger boys. This stripling faced the members of parliament, and without hesitation proclaimed his thesis. "It is not merely to open the library to persons who, from the engrossing nature of their engagements of business, are at present utterly excluded from it, but It is also that the library may be made...
الصفحة 7 - Chancellor, Lord Eldon, always refused to act as trustee, considering, probably, with great propriety, that he had other duties more essential to his office to perform. It is not, therefore, to be wondered at, that amongst the curators, assistant librarians, and sublibrarians, there should be found many persons taken from the inferior departments of the church and of the public offices ; places abounding with respectable, well-educated men, but not the natural seminaries of either naturalists or...
الصفحة 7 - ... natural seminaries of either naturalists, or of persons of profound and refined taste in antiquities, collections of the works of art, and monuments of the genius of the great people of antiquity. If men of the highest distinction as to scientific character had always occupied the most exalted offices in the museum, either as curators of the collections, or as zoologists, ornithologists, entomologists, mineralogists, botanists, and superintendents of the ancient collections of sculpture and painting;...

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