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Show Removed. The Deseret Museum and Menagerie has been removed from its former location to more roomy premises opposite the south entrance to the Tabernacle. The place just vacated va-cated by the Museum had become entirely en-tirely too small for the large and interesting inter-esting collection of specimens which Mr. John . Young, the proprietor, and Professor Barf'oot, the Superin- tendent, have collected. This institu-1 tion should be more largely patronized i than it is by our citizens. There is world of information in it for all, young j or aged, who desire to be informed with jegard to the Territory of which they are inhabitants. How many who have resided in Utah, ten, fifteen and twenty years, really understand the products of these mountains and valleys, val-leys, the animals that inhabit and have inhabited them, the crystallizations, petrifaction-, fossilized remains, relics of the ancient inhabitants, and other objects of interest which abound around us? But few, we think; and the Museum would give a better idea of them than volumes of description. We suggest that Professor Barfoot give short lectures on specified days if he can find time in the midst of his multifarious duties explanatory of the minerals, capacity of the soil, timber, cereals, animals, and other products of this region; and that the schools be taken there at limited rates to hear them. Special rates, we believe, are made for schools, and this would be a most valuable means of education of which any teacher should be glad to avail himself or herself. |