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architecture, mechanics, technology, the various arts, 

 archaeology, etc., in German, French, and English. This 

 library is open twice a week, from five to eight in the 

 evening, to the pupils of the first class of the school, and 

 to such mechanics as apply for the use of it. 



There is a rich collection of drawings of new and useful 

 machines, and of illustrations of the different courses, 

 belonging to the institution. Among them is a splendid 

 work, entitled Models for Manufacturers and Artisans, 

 (Vorlegeblatter fur Fabricanten und Handwerker) con- 

 taining engravings by the best artists of Germany, and 

 some even from France and England, applicable to the 

 different arts and to architecture and engineering. Among 

 the drawings are many from original designs by Shenckel, 

 of Berlin. There is a second useful but more ordinary 

 series of engravings, on similar subjects, also executed 

 for the use of the school. These works are distributed to 

 the provincial trade schools, and presented to such of the 

 mechanics of Prussia as have especially distinguished 

 themselves in their vocation. The collection of models of 

 machinery belonging to the school probably ranks next in 

 extent and value to that at the Conservatory of Arts of Paris. 

 It contains models of such machines as are not readily com- 

 prehended by drawings. Most of them are working models, 

 and many were made in the workshops of the school. They 

 are constructed, as far as possible, to a uniform scale, 

 and the parts of the models are of the same materials as 

 in the actual machine. There is an extensive collection 

 of casts, consisting of copies of statues, basso-relievos, 

 utensils, bronzes, and vases of the museums of Naples, 

 Rome, and Florence, and of the British Museum, and of 

 the models of architectural monuments of Greece, Rome, 

 Pompeii, etc., and copies of models, cameos, and similar 

 objects; those specimens only have been selected which 

 are not in the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts of 



