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76 METHODS OF SOCIAL REFORM.
Bethnal Green Museum, and in the provinces by that
ndtuirablo establishment, tho Peel Park Museum at Salford.
Practically, indeed, it is impossible to separate the popular
from the Provincial Museums; the latter is not wholly
ilc&igncd for popular use, and may have important scientific
and historical collect,ions, ill-suited for recreative and educational
purposos. For reasons of economy, however, the
popular and tho scientific Museums are generally merged
together, as nt I’oel Park and many other places. Of
Proviucial Museums I mill, however, speak mor0 fully below.
Special hfuseums form a very numerous but varied group,
and includo any narrow collection formed by an institution
for particular purposes. The Monetary Museum at tho Paris
Mint is a good iustancc, and it is pleasant to notice that the
nucleus of n similar Museurn already exists at our Mint on
Tower Hill, aud is being arraugod and improved. The
superb Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons is a, special
ono, if, indeed, it does not more properly belong to the class
of Standard National collections. Among other special collections
may be mentioned the Architectural Museum in Tufton
Street, Westminster, the Museums of the several learned
societies, of tho ltoyal United Service Institution, and the
Parkcs Museum of Hygiene.
Under the fifth class of Educational Museums we place
thoss mnintained by colleges and schools, for the illustration
of lecturcs or the direct uso of students. Every teaching
institution ought to have some kind of Museum, and many
ftlrcarly have cxtcusive collections. University College has
n lnrgo Museum of anatomical and pathological specimens in
addition to other collections. Owens College has fortunately
rocoived the considerable Museum formerly maintained in
Peter Street by the Natural History Society, but is in need of
funds to erect a suitable building, so as to allow of the popular
use of tho Museum in accordance with the terms of the gift.
The universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews possess great
natural history collections, which probably surpass the bounds
of simply educational Museums, and assume an almost national
importance. The same may be said of the Ashmolean Museum