In article <[log in to unmask]>, Kizzy Stonell <[log in to unmask]> writes >Can anyone recommend books on the history of or about Society run >Museums in Britain ? There's an excellent article on the museums of the Yorkshire Philosophical Societies by Peter Brears ("Temples of the muses: the Yorkshire philosophical museums 1820-50") in Museums Journal vol. 84 no. 1, pp. 3-19 (1984). Mick -- Michael P. Cooper * Mineralist * [log in to unmask]