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Show iim mijsi uji. A local notice which upr eared In cur columua jtsltrdoy, mil another which ill. Us lace therein tuduy, record the rcntrlLutliiguf valuable (echinus, natutal aud manufactured, to the Desetut Museum. We think that auch a course intinot be touatrongly urgid upon all who have cljtcta of Interest. Hits Latter-day Haluta scud their l'.l.lira Into nlmttt every ; art of Ihe habltabloiarlh, audit would be dull, (tilt to tlinl a community umongi.t whlcli g.ogruphlcal nud such othir liuowledgo nt comes through travel, abounded more t an hi re. Onlj u day or tu o ago tliu writer found hlnuelf one of a purly ccmptited of llio gentlemen nnd t irea ladies. One of Ihe men talked III u modest way ol hla experience! during several )rara, travel In the Southern and North, "stern slates; a eccoud guvo an ci .-- Interfiling drirrldlon ol tlghta and Irenes In Holland; a IhlrJ srnke from personal acquaintance of Denmark Den-mark and the Danes; the fourth tol I of Italy and Hwllmlend, and the fifth ahowed himself well versed in Hi-moan Hi-moan allalra from a sojourn of years lu tliosn distant talis. Nor went thu ladles tesa experienced; one of them had been with tier hutbinJ, preaching IheUorpol of peace and good will to man by example If not by imblla precept pre-cept In the Islea of Ibn sea; another told of herglrllieol In merry Hugland. The valuo of travel and of varlel experience ex-perience at an educator I now very generally recognised; and we know uf no peoplo to whom such extended ad-Vantages ad-Vantages In these directions are raoro easily of access than to the Litter-day Haliil. Willie In foreign parts miiy ot our mhwlonarlts collect little things which together form an Interesting record of strange exerlence; but alter returning home, loo miny of these prions allow their collections lo bo ntierid, and so to become comtAra. tlvely valueless. A shell la given to thla friend, a atone to that, and u lotof ferns to a third; ani aoon wlat would have boennjn,at useful cabinet la dispersed; and sucti of the speclme b as are not lost or destroyed nre little more than object of simple curlualty. Now wo have a museum among ui; an Institution which la worthy of our highest commendation. It la support-ex support-ex I for purely phllaulhropta purposes; being entirely non-productive as n financial Investment, for ol-mission ol-mission to Ita collection la freu to all proper pereont. llcsldea the wealth of natural history objects there-lu there-lu preserved, the Museum possesaea a great number of ethnological epecl-inentlllusliatlveof epecl-inentlllusliatlveof customa nud manners man-ners of life lu many foreign countries; an I also a great nunibir of Church relics. These uillectlona, nlready Invaluable, In-valuable, ahoulJ be ndded to, und this can only bu done on an nJtquato scalo by the co-operation of thu people generally, gen-erally, l'ormany years the Museum was poorly houod, and there have been tlni-a when theru wa Utile pretense pre-tense of oclentlllo ability In III direction. direc-tion. Thla latter remark, we need acarrely iy, may not a; ply to tliu lime when the lamento I l'rofeseor 11 ir-foot, ir-foot, ttiat beloved brother and frloud, had wraouul charge; it 1 a audlclent complluient to him to aiy that his ability was only equalloi by his mod-i mod-i sty, aud that aoleuce never had n inoru devoted son. Hut aa stated be-fvrelherolmve be-fvrelherolmve Leeu dellcleiiclesbotb In habitation aud direction, and these at present have been made good through the liberality o( thu olllcers of the Institution. Two yearaago the institution insti-tution waa removed from It very Incommodious In-commodious quarters lu Ibu little ueuao which Blood opposite Ihe south gate lo Ibe Templo lllock; nud since that time It has occupied noma In tho Hotel rcrnplotou building. Hut Iheto acconioiojatious are ty nu means ample, and auotber change will aoon be made. The entire upier floor ol the beautl.ul building low Hearing completion com-pletion on the grounds el thu Latter-day Latter-day HAlnts' College In the Huven-teenlli Huven-teenlli ward, will be occupied by the Museum, and there every effort will bu mado to properly display the collections for the benefit of student. Wu understand It to be thu Intention of thu curator to set apart n room In that building for the contributions of iiilsslonarleaaud others Illustrating the leculhirltlcaof foreign peoples; nnd other ample tp4ca will be reserve it for Church relics, beildu rooms fur the scientific collections. The example, or Hitler .Ilia D. It. Young and of I.lder William O. Leu who have been mentioned In the local Items referred to, nud of tho mauy othera who have acted 111 a similarly liberal way, la to bet commended to nil. Let our Museum lecomo the greatest and grandest In tho West; wu havu thu powe to make It such without a doubt) |