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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



objects. It contains, for example, life-size photoj^raphs of the heads 

 of ditlcrent races, enlarged from smaller negatives. The ethnographic 

 collection, now temporarily installed in the basement is very consid- 

 erable, containing man}^ old specimens and also a good representa- 

 tion of Benin bronzes. The noted ornithological collection is rich in 

 types, and contains among other things the famous collection of the 

 ornithologist, H. B. Tristram. 



The principal reason why 1 dwell longer on this Museum, though its 

 importance is of the future rather than of the present, is because in 

 one respect, together with that of Glasgow, it excels all other nuiseimis 

 of the earth, and that is as regards the new ventilating and heating 



Fig. lOG.— Free Publu 



mil- Liverpool. One of the longitudinal galleries of the upper floor in new 

 building ("L" in fig. 105). 



installation. When the large new wing for the technical school and 

 the museum was designed, not only that, but also the old museum, 

 the library, and the art gallery, were supplied with the ventilating 

 and heating contrivance described in connection with the Glasgow 

 Museum. Engineer W. Key, of Glasgow, superintended the installa- 

 tion of this in Liv^erpool. There are four and a third miles of 3-inch 

 tubes, whicli carry purified and warmed air into each room at the rate 

 of 8,000,000 cubic feet an hour. The ducts through which the puri- 

 fied, washed, and warmed air streams into the tubes, are so large that 

 one can easily walk in them. The power is supplied b}' great dynamo 

 machines. The future must demonstrate whether, being located in 



