Guide to the Collections in the Horniman Museum and Library, Forest Hill, London, S. E: 1921 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Guide to the Collections in the Horniman Museum and Library, Forest Hill, London, S. E: 1921

The arrangement of the greater part of the collections is designed to throw light upon the evolutionary processes by which the changing present has been derived from the unstable past. Only a small portion of such a vast field can be covered in a small museum; evolution in the animal kingdom, and in the earlier stages of the arts, crafts, and industries of man, afford more than sufficient scope, and the collections have certain limitations which are referred to below.

An essential part in the explanation of the contents of the Museum is played by the Handbooks that have been issued (see back of cover), and these will be added to from time to time. The lectures to teachers, the public lectures, and the tours conducted by the guide-lecturer, have also, in the main, the same, object. Beginning with the specimens and their arrangement, and passing through the labels, the Guide, the Handbooks, the Lectures and Demonstrations, and the books and treatises in the Library, there is provided a graduated scale which is, it is hoped, adapted to meet the needs of most classes of visitors.

The two departments of Ethnology and Zoology practically coincide with the two balls which form the greater part of the Museum.

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