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through later ages. The many rooms in which are shown the 

 home life of the peasantry and the lords of the land are most inter- 

 esting, and we were fortunate in having an excellent guide. 



The great hall shown in Fig. 50, is now partly filled; the 

 galleries on both sides contain the rooms of home life, collections 

 of implements of both indoor and outdoor life in Scandinavia. 

 Dr. Artur Hazelius is, I understand, the founder of most of this 



50. INTERIOR OF NORDISKA MUSEET. 



great work. When we can, if ever, put in one building so clear 

 and complete a story of the Polynesian civilizations — but we are 

 perhaps too late to equal the completeness of this object lesson. 



In a street leading out of the Drottning-Gata, is the Geological 

 Museum with a good collection of Swedish economic rocks. Not 

 far from this is the Wetenskaps-Akademi, or Academy of Science, 

 founded in 1739, of which the first director was the great Linnaeus. 

 The building contains a valuable natural history collection. 

 Stockholm seems to be well provided with live and instructive 

 museums. The Nordiska Museet has a very complete system of 

 disinfection, or fumigation, including a vacuum chamber, large 



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