STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 



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Th(> airhitect was A. Waterhouse." Plate 38 shows the exterior of 

 the building", rigs. 81 and 82 the ground plans. The interior is inipraetical 

 and disagreeable. Even the ofticials have positively expressed them- 



selves concerning both of these defects, and are certainly the best judges 



«The construction extended from 1873 to 1880. In 1886 the installation of the 

 collections, which were formerly in the British Museum (Great Russell street), was 

 completed. The building is 675 feet long and has two towers 190 feet high, while 



