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REPOUT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



were it not for the fact that it has one arrangement which in museum 

 buildino-s marks an advance of the fi^reatest importance, namely, that 

 for ventilation. It is like that described al)ove in the technical school 

 and the Ry lands Library in Manchester, and which 1 also observed in 





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American libraries. Here in (xlaso^ow, however, the scheme has first 

 been applied within my knowledge for museum purposes, at the same 

 time as we shall see with that of the museum in Liverpool. I mark, 

 with the erection of this building, a new epoch in the history of 



