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<p align="center">written about their general principles of management and economy. In the English language, at least, there is apparently not a single treatise IYQWVCCY
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forgotten, if indeed it could ever have been said to be known. Moreover it is IHM mostly concerned with the principles of management of art galleries,
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<p align="left">reports of the Commission. I do VFTVIQP not propose in this article to boil down the voluminous contents of Blue Books, but, depending chiefly upon my own memory of many museums and
exhibitions which I have visited from time to time, to endeavour to 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee arrive at some conception of the purposes, or rather the many purposes, which
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<p align="center" style="font: 12px;">has been attained. In any case a 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee comparison of the purposes and achievements of Museums must be instructive. According to its etymology the name Museum means a temple MOLD or haunt 7ea99ed1b6714702bd5343b786c98bee of the
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