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INTRODUCTION.
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through an examination of these volumes, he learns that an article is made
there which will suit his customers. This aspect of their usefulness gives these
collections a title to be called Trade Museums in a fuller and broader sense than
belongs to any which have yet been established.
It is not desirable, however, that the scheme should stop with the textile manu-
factures. It is hoped, indeed, that it may yet be greatly extended and in various
directions, to the advantage alike of Britain and of India, whose common interest
it certainly is in every way to cultivate intimate commercial relations. A large
amount of information has been drawn together regarding all classes of Indian
manufactures and of Indian products, and it is clearly of immense advantage to this
country and to India that this knowledge should be so disseminated as to prove
practically useful—in other words, so as to influence directly the interchange of
commodities. No way, we think, could so effectually accomplish this as the one
which, with the sanction and support of the Secretary of State for India in
Council, has been chosen in the case of the Textile Manufactures; and it is
satisfactory to know that the resources of the Department would enable future
efforts in the same direction, having regard to other manufactures or products, to
be made with less labour and with increased economy.
Note.—A Memorandum, submitted to the India Office, regarding the distribution in
Britain and India of the Collections of Specimens, to which this work forms the key,—the
enumeration of the places in this country where they have been deposited, and the statement
of the conditions attached to the gift by the Secretary of State for India in Council, will be
found in an Appendix at p. 149-
9
through an examination of these volumes, he learns that an article is made
there which will suit his customers. This aspect of their usefulness gives these
collections a title to be called Trade Museums in a fuller and broader sense than
belongs to any which have yet been established.
It is not desirable, however, that the scheme should stop with the textile manu-
factures. It is hoped, indeed, that it may yet be greatly extended and in various
directions, to the advantage alike of Britain and of India, whose common interest
it certainly is in every way to cultivate intimate commercial relations. A large
amount of information has been drawn together regarding all classes of Indian
manufactures and of Indian products, and it is clearly of immense advantage to this
country and to India that this knowledge should be so disseminated as to prove
practically useful—in other words, so as to influence directly the interchange of
commodities. No way, we think, could so effectually accomplish this as the one
which, with the sanction and support of the Secretary of State for India in
Council, has been chosen in the case of the Textile Manufactures; and it is
satisfactory to know that the resources of the Department would enable future
efforts in the same direction, having regard to other manufactures or products, to
be made with less labour and with increased economy.
Note.—A Memorandum, submitted to the India Office, regarding the distribution in
Britain and India of the Collections of Specimens, to which this work forms the key,—the
enumeration of the places in this country where they have been deposited, and the statement
of the conditions attached to the gift by the Secretary of State for India in Council, will be
found in an Appendix at p. 149-