562 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



tiou may be devoted to the promotion of scientitic research through 

 the establishment and equipment of museums." 



X.— GLASGOW. 



Glasgow is a seaport and manufacturing city, with upward of 

 1,000,000 inhaliitants. Its street life is imposing; it is not so begrimed 

 as Manchester, but still it is smoky to a very considerable extent. In 

 Kelvingrove Park stands the great university building erected in 1870, 

 by G. G. Scott, at a cost of $2,500,000 (the university was founded in 

 1451), in the early English style with later Scotch-Flemish features. 

 The building is 590 feet long and 321 feet wide, with a tower 328 

 feet high.. The library contains 180,000 volumes, and tliere are 2,500 

 students and 00 instructors. The annual expenditure for the univer- 

 sity is $300,000. Inasmuch as 1 was informed that its collections are 

 not very noteworth3', I did not inspect them, especially since the 

 international exhibition in the same park fully occupied my time. 

 My chief interest lay in the entirely new Museum of Art and Science, 

 opened in 1901, and temporarily occupied by parts of the exhibition. 



32. CORPORATION MUSEUMS AND ART GALL?:RIES. ^' 



During the exhibition the building contained mostly loan collections, 

 but at its close the not uniniporttuit gallery of paintings, the Corpora- 

 tion Art Industrial Museum, and the Natural Histoiy Museum were 

 installed there.'' This natural-history collection at the time of my 



« Andrew Carnegie earned at the age of 12 years $1.25 a week as spooler in a cotton 

 factory; then he became fireman in a factory; then telegraph messenger; in his fif- 

 teenth year a telegrapli operator, with a salary of |25 a month. At the age of 20 he 

 became secretary to the director of a large railway; at 25, a snperintendent of mili- 

 tary telegraphy of the Federal Govermnent; at 28, the owner of an oil well; at 30, 

 a builder of iron Ijridges; at 45, the "steel king." It is said that he possesses a for- 

 tune of $300,000,000, but has determined to give away his entire property in order 

 to die "poor." He spends his summer in Skibo, Scotland. (See further mention of 

 Mr. Carnegie and his gifts on previous pages.) 



''It is noticed that it is intended to change the name to Art Palace. We also find 

 it styled in various ways — as. Corporation Art < Jallery and Museums, New Art (ial- 

 leries and Museum, Corporation of Glasgow, Museums and Art Galleries, Glasgow 

 Art Gallery and Museum (Kelvingrove), Corporation Cialleries, etc. The former 

 Kelvingrove Museum had the following divisions: Fine-art section, ethnographical 

 section, archeological section, technological section, local-history section, natural- 

 history section, and book section. 



''I have indicated on the plan of the ground floor (fig. 98) the present distribu- 

 tion of the collections. In the second story there are only paintings and art objects 

 (see Tin' Mu)<ewns Journal, I, 1902, p. 317). The director expresses his regret (on 

 page 324) that the natural sciences are not properly cared for, the very limited 

 space affortling no opportunity for a strictly systematic arrangement and l)eing cut 

 up too nuich. It is certainly unfortunate that in an entirely new building these 

 difficulties must already be encountered. 



