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new libraries springing up over the country, where every article 

 of furniture is of steel well enamelled, and not only fire-proof but, 

 what is of more importance to us, insect-proof. 



From Cologne our way led by boat down the Rhine to Mayence 

 and thence by rail to Frankfurt am Main where we were seeking 

 the museum of the Senekenbergisehen Naturforschenden Gesell- 

 schaft, of which I have the honor of being a corresponding member. 

 Also the Stadtisches Volkerkunde Museum. The former museum 



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SENCKENBERGISCHE MUSEUM. 



has not merely a fine new building, but also a very extensive and 

 well arranged collection of natural history which we could profit- 

 ably have studied longer than our time permitted. The latter we 

 found in the former Thurn und Taxissches Palace. It was founded 

 by HR. Dr. Bernard Hagen in 1904 by the cooperation of the 

 Anthropological Society of Frankfurt and the State, and Dr. 

 Hagen is the Director. In his absence Consul Francis C. A. Sarg, 

 his honorary deputy, was very obliging in showing us the collec- 

 tion, which, although not large, yet contains some choice speci- 

 mens, as may be seen by the illustration of the Maori carved box, 

 Fig. 86. Doubtless in a city so abounding in scientific societies and 

 wealthy and educated inhabitants this museum should considerably 

 expand. Its present palace of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis, 



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