PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOR THE YEAR 1919
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is part of: Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia
creator: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
issued: 2016-02-09
issued: [1920]
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note: PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA REPORT OF THE PEOYINOIAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL history FOR THE TEAR 1919 PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OP THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by William H. Cullijv, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1920. To Colonel the Honourable Edward Gawler Prior, A Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia. May it please your Honour: Tbe undersigned respectfully submits the Annual Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1919. Provincial Secretary's Office, Victoria, February, 1920. j. d. Maclean, Provincial Secretary. P 3 Provincial Museum op Natural History, Victoria, B.C., February 24th, 1920. The Honourable J. D. MacLean, M.D., Provincial Secretary, Victoria, B.C. Sir,—I have the honour, as Director of the Provincial Museum of Natural History, to lay before you the Report for the year ending December 31st, 1919, covering the activities of the Museum. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, FRANCIS KERMODE, • Director. p 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Inception and History ' 7 Objects ' 7 Admission 7 Visitors 7 Activities '. S Anthropology 8 Mammals 8 Ornithology 12 Oology 13 Fishes 14 Botany 15 Entomology 16 PROVINCIAL MUSEUM REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1919. In making the Annual Report for the year it is deemed advisable to give as much as possible of the inception, history, and progress of the Institution. A museum is an institution for the preservation of those objects which best illustrate Nature and the works of man; the use of these for the increase of knowledge and for the culture and enlightenment of the people; its special functions being to preserve and utilize objects of nature and works of art and industry. It supplies a need which is felt in every intelligent community, which cannot be supplied by any other agency ; it does not exist, except among highly enlightened people, and attains its highest development only in great centres of ci…
has type: Legislative proceedings
identifier: J110.L5 S7
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language: English
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