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The .spiU'c under the liori/oiittil eases is provided with cases with 

 drawers for seientitie eoUections; it is not hollow and covered in, as 

 at the Field Columbian Museum. The arrangemnt with interchancre- 

 able drawers is o-ood. Excellent order exists everywdiere. 



Great care is applied to the art of taxidermy, but some of the older 

 specimens are not ornamental to the museum. 



The labeling- is with instructive d(vscriptions printed at the museum, 

 and the work is executed in general with the greatest care and a great 

 deal of pains, as shown in fig, 43, the interior of the case of fossils. 

 In the drawers the objects lie loose in cardboard boxes, and in the 

 exhibit collections they rest upon labels of cardboard with paper 

 pasted on, therefore there is no permanent arrangement such as could 

 be attained with thin metal plate; but the streng-th of the cardboard 

 and the color of the paper are selected after nuich experimenting, and 

 the appearance of the tablets is excellent, at least for the present. 



Fig. -13. — Chicago Academy of Sciences. Case showing fo.ssils. 



]^)ut in time the cardboards warp and the cream color fades, for the 

 museum is open to the public daih' from i> a. m. to .5 p. m. (on Sunday 

 fi'om 1 to 5 p. m.), and the collections are so long exposed to the light 

 that they must become injured sooner than ncces.-^ary. The labels are 

 3, (), and 8i- inches long, and 2, 4, 6, and 85^ inches wide, not to mention 

 extra sizes. They are either printed directly on the cardl)()aid or on 

 paper of the same color, and pasted on the board. The printing types 

 are especially attractive. The paper used is called ''star manila;" the 

 cardboard is a seventh of an inch thick, with a border of black gummed 

 paper, and covered with the man i la paper so that a black rim remains. 

 If a black background is required for the objects, the 3'ellowish ])ap(M- 

 is again covered with ])lack paper, as on paper boxes. The whole 

 arrangement is neat, ancl aou rarely find so nuich care taken in other 

 museums. 



According to European custom, the name "Academy of Science" is 

 rather misleading, for an academy of science in Germany means an 



