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pose. In 1(S',>1 thero were 185,34-1: visitors on 206 free days, besides 

 i2,015 on 30 Sunday afternoons, and 25,821 on Tuesdays and Fridays 

 for an admission fee of six pence; total, 253,270. 



WALLACE COLLECTION. 



This famous collection of paintings and works of art is installed in 

 a palace (Hertford House), which, though it has been to some extent 

 adapted to its present purpose, yet possesses many disadvantages as a 

 museum. It is one of the greatest attractions of its kind in London. 

 It formerly ))eIonged to the Wallace estate, but was later presented to 

 the nation. Its value is estimated at $20,000,000." 



KOYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS. 



The Kew Gardens, the foremost scientific establishment of the world 

 in systematic botany, is admirably administered, with an excellent 

 museum of practical botany. 



HORNIMAN FREE MUSEUM.'' 



"The arrangement of the building is as follows: Connected with 

 some smaller halls, which are first entered, is a larger one about 108 

 by 60 feet and 42 feet high, with skylight, and encircled above with 

 a gallery 6 feet 6 inches broad. These spaces constitute the front 

 half of the building, and contain a systematically arranged ethno- 

 graphical collection, chiefly of personal ornaments, which are installed 

 in the gallery in cabinets. In the rear half of the building, on the 

 ground fioor, the ethnographical collection is continued. The hall is 

 not provided with any light, and when anyone is admitted it is illumi- 

 nated b}' electric lights. Here the objects are arranged more in a 

 geographical order. The second story of the rear building is on a 



«For the year 1903, £9,066 has been granted for the administration of this museum. 



'^ Extracts from a report which was placed at my disposal by Dr. O. Richter, 

 assistant in the Dresden Ethnographical Museum, who visited the Horniman Museum 

 in Fel)ruary, 1902. I did not find time to visit this museum, on account of its dis- 

 tance in Forest Hill. From a ilescription by the director, R. (^uick, in the Reporl 

 of the Miwums AsmcHithm, 1900, pages 58-63 (compare, also, the Horniman Free 

 Museum, in The Sfiidio, XXIV, pp. 196-202, with 5 illustrations, 1901), I note that 

 this museum of art and science was l)uilt in 1899 by C. H. Townsend, in free Renais- 

 sance style, fireproof, of red bricks, with limestone front, in which is introduced acrystal 

 mosaic picture 36 feet long and 11 feet high, after the design of A. Bell. The building 

 has a bell tower 33 meters high, which contains a water reservoir for supplying the heat- 

 ing apparatus. The museum is, in its entirety, about 280 feet long and 65 feet wide. 

 The collections were formerly installed in the residence of Mr. F. J. Horniman, wlio 

 had zealously collected them in his travels around the world during forty years, and who 

 allowed his residence to be torn down to make room for the museum. Since 1891 it 

 has been open to visitors on three days in each week. Between 1891 and 1898, when 

 it was demolished to make room for the new building, it was visited by 455,591 per- 

 sons. Since 1891 the director has issued, annually, a brief report, with illustrations. 

 The library contains 6,000 vohunes. There are 7 officials. The entire cost of main- 

 tenance is defrayed bv Mr. Horniman. 



