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never be kept clean. The electric illumination employed at night con- 

 sists of arc lights retiected from the ceilings, of which a test was being 

 made at the very time of my visit. It resulted successfully, even in 

 the skylight floor. The iron cases for the collection Avill soon be com- 

 pleted. There is allotted for the interior furnishing $125,000 (the 

 interior arrangements of the Technical School cost $75,000). 



Fig. 104.— Free Public Museums, Liverpool, England. Plan of lower floor. 



The present portion of the old Museum nmst be less favorably" 

 spoken of. The rooms are too dark; one with a sk3dight and galleries 

 suffers much from reflections on the In'oad desk cases arranged along 

 the rail. The vertical and horizontal cases are some of them very 

 clumsy. I observed, however, a good arrangement upon horizontal 

 cases, namely, a l)rass mounting on the anterior framework, on which 

 the observer can lean while examining the objects in the case. The 



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Fig. 10.5. — Free Public Museums, Liverpool, England. Plan of upper floor. 



collection, owing to the relnulding, is not well cared for at present; it 

 is also overcrowded, but contains much valuable material. The new 

 installation of the entire Museum will work great changes in this 

 respect. This Museum suflFers, like others, from a lack of a suffi- 

 cient corps of assistants. The newly installed anthropological hall is 

 exceptionally fine in its clear arrangement and the choice of its 



