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29. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. 



The Museum of Science and Art (since 19()4 the Royal Scottish 

 Museum), which from its size and variet}' might properly have been 

 mentioned before the Anatomical Museum, is an old one. It was 

 founded toward the close of the seventeenth century, when the 

 renowned naturalists, Andrew Balfour and Robert Sibbald, laid its 

 foundation, Sil)bald printed, as early as 1697, a catalogue of the col- 

 lection of minerals, stones, metals, vegetable products, animals, art 

 objects, manuscripts, and books. In 1854 the present location was 

 purchased for $35,000. In 1861 the new, stately building was begun 

 after plans by Fowke. In 1866 the first portion, in 1875 the second 

 portion, and in 1888 the last portion, was completed. It is the National 

 ^luseum of Scotland, is supported by the state (Scottish Education 

 Department), and is free of access to the university professors for 



Fig. 92. — Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, Scotland. Plan of first floor. 



purposes of instruction. The building immediately adjoins the new 

 university, and opposite stands Heriot-Watt College, an institute for 

 instruction in technology, natural science, and art. Now (since 1900) 

 F. (irant Ogilvie is the director of the whole," and R. II. Traquair 

 (since 1873) the curator of the natund science department. There are 

 30 othcials on its roster. In the manner of the South Kensington 

 Museum, in London, it combines art, industry, and technologv, and in 

 addition, the entire natural sciences, making a grand whole. It is 

 divided into the following departments: 



1. Decorative art: Specimens of ancii^nt, classic, medireval, and 

 renaissance sculptures, especialh" as applied to architecture; the indus- 



« Recently (1903) ]\Ir. Ogilvie became principal assistant secretary of the board of 

 education in Loudon, and was succeeded by Prof. J. J. Dobbie as director in 

 Edinburgh. 



