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Oxford was another Mecca of our pilgrimage. In my former 

 visit in 1896 I had been the guest of Professor H. Balfour, and the 

 friendship then formed with that distinguished ethnologist was 

 pleasantly refreshed when he met us at the station on May 24th 

 with his carriage. He took us first to the museum (Fig. 32) where 

 we found many changes and additions, the latter especially in the 



32. INTERIOR OF OXFORD MUSEUM. 



collection of ethnic musical instruments. As is well known the 

 Pitt-Rivers collection forms an important part of this museum, 

 and the arrangement is comparative, hence difficult to enumerate. 

 The result is vastly instructive, but only to be adopted in an ex- 

 tensive museum like the present. Among the exhibits was a fine 

 series of pump-drills, also many choice Fijian lotus clubs. 



The system adopted in the Oxford Museum is as follows : (Of 

 course the smaller subdivisions are in practice greatly extended.) 



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