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desperate evil in a museum, and is productive of great 

 confusion. 



In an anatomical museum the cases ought to 

 be all glazed, 8 feet high, elevated half a foot from 

 the floor, 2 feet deep, and furnished Avith movable 

 shelving. 



Such a museum should be in the form of one or 

 more rooms, hi the upper flat of a building, 12 feet iiigh, 

 20 feet broad, lighted from the roof, Avith low, flat, glazed 

 tables along the middle of the floor. 



Architectural decoration ought not by any means to 

 be admitted. The style should be perfectly simple. 



Such a museum might be polygonal. 



In our Museum the exposed ticketing should be 

 suspended, tlie cards smaller than they are at present, 

 the articles numbered, the divisions lettered. 



2nd. Department of Comparative Anatomy. — As the 

 cases are precisely the same as those for the department 

 of human anatomy, disorder cannot be avoided. The 

 same disposition as to the preparations should be 

 followed ; but the articles should be arranged according 

 to the classes to which they belong, the subdivisions 

 being the same as the divisions in human anatomy. 



A museum for comparative anatomy ought to be 

 very difl^erently constructed from one for human 

 anatomy, as the case fitted for the skeleton of a man 

 is not adapted for that of an elephant or a mouse. 



Such a museum must be of larger dimensions, 

 elevated, and lighted from the roof as well as the 

 sides. 



