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Amsterdam — Leiden. 



Marquesas Isla7ids. 

 A pair of stilt-rests and a fine club. 



Fiji. 

 Human figure in wood. 17 Spears well carved. 

 5 Clubs, musket form; 5 knobbed; 5 throwing; 2 

 pine-apple; 2 round. 



Hervey Islatids. 

 5 Ceremonial adzes and a carved paddle. 



N^ezc Guinea & Bisma^xk Archipelago. 

 An assortment of bags and 10 Korowaarixam-Wv^ 

 former and 3 carv^ed figures from New Ireland. 



In the same Zoological Garden, which is con- Fig. 38. 



veniently situated in the midst of the cit)', and one of the best kept 

 in Europe, is the Aquarium. This is very well planned both for 

 exhibition and for the care of the tanks. The contents were not of 

 great rarity but in perfecft condition. The obliging keeper showed 

 all the inner arrangements . There are large underground cisterns 

 for the sea-water which was brought from the Atlantic some years 

 ago. In the hall over the tank room is a colletlion of marine ani- 

 mals and produdls neither well lighted nor installed. 



In the attic of another building there is a large series of ver- 

 tebrate skeletons including many Cetaceans. This is not open to 

 the public as it is not 3^et encased. In the Aviary was a Dacelo gi- 

 gas ( Laughing Jackass ) from Australia. Pastor tristis from Java 

 proved to be the same bird as the so-called "Mina" introduced by 

 the late Dr. Hillebrand: Eidabes javanica the true Mina in the same 

 house was a capital talker. 



Leiden on May 5th. At the Egyptian Museum the distin- 

 guished Curator Dr. P. A. A. Booser showed and explained many 

 most interesting matters, his colledlion being one of the oldest and 

 most extensive in Europe and prized by all Egyptologists. Leiden 

 seems a very small place — almost a town of one street — but be- 

 sides being a university town, it is emphatically a city of museums. 

 These are all quite too large for the buildings that try to contain 

 them. In one place was a good series of casts from the excava- 



