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models of what a catalogue should be, for the clearness and excel- 

 lence of the text, and the beauty of the illustrations. In 1893, 

 also, the new Catalogue of the British Museum, by Cecil Smith and 

 Walters, began to appear, which marked an important step. In that 

 year, too, Mr. Edward Robinson brought out his catalogue of the 

 vases in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which is now out of 

 date, through no fault of his, but because Boston has doubled and 

 trebled its collection since that catalogue was written. 



The French have produced fine catalogues of the museums in 

 Madrid and Athens, and especially praiseworthy is De Ridder's of 

 the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris : and M. Edmond Pottier, Con- 

 servateur de la Ceramique Antique at the Louvre, and one of the 

 world's leading authorities on the subject, has successfully com- 

 bined catalogue and album in handling the collections in that mu- 

 seum, writing an unillustrated text catalogue, which brief descrip- 

 tions of the different vases, and with an introduction which, when 

 it first came out, gave the best short summary of the history of 

 Greek pottery and of its study that had up to that time appeared, 

 while larger volumes contain separate groups of plates, which give 

 photographs of selected specimens, with a good account of each 

 vase illustrated, including a complete bibliography of its previous 

 publications, if any. The Catalogue of Athens was by Collignon 

 in 1878; but a new edition, written in collaboration with the late 

 Louis Couve appeared in 1902, with an atlas of plates, and a sup- 

 plementary catalogue, covering accessions since that year, also with 

 an atlas of plates, was brought out by Georges Nicole in 1912. 

 Madrid was catalogued by the late Gabriel Leroux, one of the 

 ablest of the younger French archaeologists, who was killed at the 

 Dardanelles. 



In Italy, Pellegrini has produced, in 1900 and 1912, excellent 

 catalogues of the collections of the Museo Civico at Bologna, but 

 very little work has been done towards cataloguing the very rich 

 museums of Italy, and the catalogues, where there are any, are 

 mostly out of date, as in the case of Naples. I understand that the 

 two leading collections in Rome, those of the Vatican and the Museo 

 di Villa Giulia, will shortly become accessible to students by cata- 

 logues ; but more important even than these is the cataloguing of 



