MUSEUMS AND THE COLLECTING MANIA.
“ Museums are the residuary legatees of the collecting mania,” says the " Scotsman.” “A, the archaeologist, collects flints; B, the traveller, collects elephants’ tusics; C specialises in armour, and D in postage stamps, and they all bequeath their collections to their native village. The village librarian lias’ the task of dusting these collections periodically, and of collecting sixpence from any visitors who have been tempted by the local guidebook to ask to see them. This is a parable of the way in which maiiy museums came to he burdened with a vast number of objects scarcely related to each other, and sometimes exhibited with such careless profusion that the visitors is dazed and goes away with a museum Headache from looking lit so many glass cases.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1928, Page 4
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