Further to Visigoths, Villa, and Vhy-Ve-Are-Here, I have this to add from a recent paper by Marjorie Halpin (of this museum), she writes: "On September 17, 1773, the following notice appeared in English newspapers, signed by Sir Ashton Lever: This is to inform the Publick that being tired out with the insolence of the common People, who I have hitherto indulged with a sight of my museum [at Alkrington], I am now come to the resolution of refusing admittance to the lower classes except they come provided with a ticket from some Gentleman or Lady of my acquaintance. And I hereby authorize every friend of mine to give a ticket to any orderly Man to bring in eleven Persons, besides himself whose behaviour he must be answerable for, according to the directions he himself will receive before they are admitted. They will not be admitted during the time of Gentlemen and Ladies being in the Museum (quoted in Alma Wittlin [1970], Museums: In Search of a Usable Future, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press). "More than a century later in New York, anthropologist Franz Boas wrote that: The value of the museum for popular entertainment must not be underrated, particularly in a large city, where every opportunity that is given to the people to employ their leisure time in healthy and stimulatin gsurroundings should be developed, where every attraction that counteracts the influence of the saloon and of the race-track is of great social importance ([1907], "Some Principles of Museum Administration," Science, June 14)." Kersti Krug Museum of Anthropology The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada