“The
museum and library will go hand in hand as essential complements to each other
in the advancement of science and art, and intellectual development generally.
A book without illustrations is of comparatively little value in teaching many
of the most important subjects now comprised in general education. A museum
should be a book or rather a library of books, illustrated not by pictures
only, but by actual specimens of the objects spoken of.”
Sir William Henry Flower
From a letter in support of
the establishment of a County Museum for Buckinghamshire, November 24, 1891
