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REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Fig. 93.— Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 

 hall (engineering section). 



West 



trial art of Europe from ancient to modern times, ethnographical 

 collections, Persian and Indian collections, Chinese and Japanese col- 

 lections, ancient Egyptian and Chaldean arts, furniture and decora- 

 tive woodwork, casts of architectural ornament. 



2. Tech » (>1<><JII : M i n - 

 eral, animal, and vege- 

 tal )le, chemical i)roducts 

 and manufactures; eco- 

 nomic botany. 



3. Etujlneer'uuj : Civil 

 engineering, mechanical 

 engineering, models of 

 ships and marine engines, 

 guns and gunnery. 



4. Natural history: 

 Zoology, geology, miner- 

 alogy (geology and min- 

 erals of Scotland sepa- 

 rately represented). 



5. The library : Over 

 12,000 volumes; patents. 



The museum is free on five days of the week from 10 a. m. to •! 

 p. m., Saturdays from 10 a, m to 10 p. m., Wednesdays also from to 

 10 p. m., Sundays from 2 to 5 p. m., on which account a large portion 

 of the collection must nat- 

 urally suffer. The build- 

 ing consists of a spacious 

 hall with skylight and two 

 galleries — one above the 

 other (figs. 95 and 96) and 

 with ten large adjoining 

 rooms partially supplied 

 with sk3'lights and galler- 

 ies. It measures in ex- 

 terior 133 feet long and 

 206 feet wide, and has 

 122,000 square feet of ex- 

 hibition floor space. It is 

 in some parts insufhcientlj' 

 lighted and has the defects 

 of similar buildings. The 



cases are of wood with clumsy framework, and are black. To make 

 them dust proof , velvet strips have been placed between the frames 

 and the doors, but without grooves, and then the doors are screwed on 

 to the outer framework; besides being locked up at several places. 



Fig. 94. 



-Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 

 hall (natural history). 



East 



