Report Of Proceedings With The Papers Read At The Annual General Meeting Held At

Author : James Paton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334400704
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Museums Association written by James Paton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Museums Association: Report of Proceedings With the Papers Read at the Eighth Annual General Meeting, Held in Oxford, July 6 to 9, 1897 It was therefore with lively anticipations that the visit of the Association to the sister University City Of Oxford was looked forward to, and the experience of the visit on the whole fully realised the high anticipations Of members. The meetings of the Association in the two previous years had fallen to be held in cities more devoted to the commercial and industrial pursuits than to the cultivation of abstract science and ideal. Art. Not that these cities failed to present many features Of great importance and interest to the Association. But when all is said and done, Newcastle and Glasgow are scenes Of smoke, grime, and turmoil, and the contrasted calm of Oxford was a grateful and pleasing Change to the members of the Association. There is reason why Museum officials should look on Oxford with exceptional interest and veneration, and that, without making any invidious contrast of its scientific resources and art treasures with those of the sister University town. Oxford we can never forget, is the parent Of us all. In the Ashmolean, Oxford was the first possessor Of a public Museum, and the sturdy race of youthful institutions now growing up throughout the United Kingdom all derive from the collections bequeathed to the University by Elias Ashmole in the 17th century. Under some name, at that remote date, the Museum must have had a curator, and in such functionary we have to acknowledge and reverence our common ancestor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.