520 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



mous. Ou an average day there are 1,000 trains or 4,000 cans used, and during the 

 busy hours of the day there are always 30 trains at a time upon this short line, 

 indeed on special occasions, caused by excessive crowding, the tracks of the loop are 

 literally covered with trains; they often run at intervals of less than one minute 

 apart. Although the loop is provided with a double track yet all the trains go in 

 the same direction; the lines that join the loop at three of its four corners are dis- 

 tributed upon the two tracks, according to their frequency. In the first 14 months 

 after it was established this remarkable railway was used by 80,000,000 of passengers. 

 The great business houses situated near the stations have already hegun to build 

 stairways from their second stories connecting directly with the gallery of the station 

 in order to spare their visitors the trouble of descending into the street. At each 

 station there is also a special stairway for the trains of each line and a reserved space 

 is railed off along the track, so that the loop may really be said to have 44 stations. 

 The whole loop might properly be considered as a single gigantic terminal station 

 for all four elevated roads, and as the grandest effort hitherto made to unite several 

 railway lines in a single center. (Newspaper notice). 



In conclusion I will name a few of the scientific, literary, and art 

 associations of Chicago, as far as I heard of them, as these characterize 

 the intellectual life of the city: Chicago Astronomical Society, Hum- 

 boldt Club, Illinois Audubon Society, Audubon Ckib, Entomological 

 Society, Mycological Society, Polytechnical Society of Chicago, West- 

 ern Society of Engineers, Literary Club, Kavenswood Historical 

 Society, Chicago Societ}^ of Egyptian Kesearch, Altura Library Asso- 

 ciation, Chicago Library Club, Bibliographical Society, Book Club, 

 Central Art Association of America, Chicago Art Association, Art Stu- 

 dents' League of Chicago, Society of Western Artists, Illinois Chapter 

 of the American Institute of Architects, Chicago Architectural Club, 

 Chicago Ceramic Association, Altura Ceramic Art Club, These, how- 

 ever, by no means exhaust the list of such societies. 



B.— NOTES ON SOME EUROPEAN MUSEUMS AND KINDRED 



INSTITUTIONS. « 



INTRODUCTION. 



After visiting, during the autumn of 1899, some of the museums 

 and libraries of the eastern section of the United States, concerning 

 which I made a partial report, it seemed to me desirable to revisit 

 some of the principal museums of Europe, and to examine others for 

 the first time, in order to have a just measure for estimation of the 

 American establishments, which profoundly impressed me. The gen- 

 eral direction of the Royal Collections of Art and Science in Dresden 

 also commissioned me to do this in view of the proposed, though 



« Translation of Tiber einige Europiiische Museen und verwandte Institute-Reiseer- 

 fahrungen von Dr. A. B. Meyer. Verlag von R. Friedlander & Sohn in Berlin, 

 1902. Al)handlungen und Berichte of the Royal Zoological and Anthropologico- 

 Ethuographical Museum at Dresden, X, 1902-3, No. 1. 



