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i'loiii iS to 10 ill the e\ onino-, and Sunday from I o'clock to dark. On 

 shorter days the building is closed before sundown. Children under 

 7 years are admitted only when accompanied by grown persons. Copy- 

 ing is allowed onl\' on Mondays and Fridays. The numlier of visi- 

 tors in 181>y was 540,000, of whom about 200,000 came on Sundays. 

 P^ntire schools of 300 pupils often come and spend the whole da}' in 

 the museum. Umbrellas and canes are checked free. Voluntary con- 

 tributions are not customary, but something is paid for depositing 

 packages and the like. 



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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 



Fk;. 10.— Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pliui of first floor. 



There has been pu])lished a series of catalogues, for the most part 

 undated, on ancient Cyprian terra cottas and vases (3,654 numbers)," 

 the ancient Cyprian stone sculptures (1,814 numbers), the Egyptian 

 antiquities (2,206 numbers), the plaster casts and bronze reproductions 

 (1,0G3 numbers), the hand drawings (882 numbers), the gems (331 



«The best and fullest publication on the Cyprian vases joi the collection is to be 

 found in W. H. Goodyear's interesting work The (irammar of the Lotus, ISDl, 

 I)p. 229-25H and 269-:]09. 



