576 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



municipal ])uilding.s, etc., in Eng-land and Scotland, and that it is also 

 installed in the university and the public library in Aberdeen. The 

 Key list enumerates more than 80 buildings. Great Britain has prob- 

 ably outrivaled America in this respect, at least I found this installa- 

 tion only in two large buildings in Chicago (see the second part of my 

 American studies) and in one in Washington. In the pamphlet pub- 

 lished in connection with the opening of the New Central Municipal 

 School in Liverpool on October 26, 1901," the ventilating and heat- 

 ing arrangements are referred to as follows: 



The air in the building is kept under a pressure slightly greater than that of the 

 outside atmosphere. The air is taken in from the large area at the back of 

 the building, and after being washed and filtered by passing through wet 

 fiber screens, and warmed when necessary by means of a large surface of coils of 

 pipes heated 1)y steam, it is propelled by four large fans into the main ducts in the 

 su})basement and then by subsidiary ducts to each room in the building. The air is 

 admitted to the rooms at a height of about 6 feet from the floor, and escapes at the 

 floor level into the foul air ducts which lead to the outside through apertures pro- 

 tected by valves. (The electric power is supplied by the city works). & 



From 1877 to 1891, the museum published, at irregular intervals, 

 live Museum Reports relating to scientific subjects; since 1898 a 

 Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums, in octavo, with plates, — a well- 

 edited publication, of which three volumes have appeared; in addition, 

 Annual Reports, of which the fort}^ -eighth, for 190(». has been pub- 

 lished (37 pp.)i gwide books, such as Synopsis of an ari-angement 

 of invertebrate animals in the Free Public Museiuu of Liverpool, 

 18S0 (32 and 105 pp.); catalogues, such as Catalogue of the Mayer 

 collection: Part I, The Egyi)tian, Babylonian, and AssArian Antiqui- 

 ties, 1S79, ix, 83 pp., with illustrations; Part II, Prehistoric Antiqui- 

 ties and Ethnology, 1882, xiv, 106 pp., with illustrations; Part III, 



«Sir William Forwood, chairman of the "Library, Museum and Arts Committee" 

 of the city council, on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone on July 1, 1898, 

 said among other things: "This building is intended for the higlier technical educa- 

 tion — for educating the captains of labor, and not merely the artisans, in a way that 

 would enable them to meet the competition of Germany. The Germans have had 

 these superior schools for years, and have been turning out a large number of expert 

 and scientific men such as did not exist in England." As in the great Technical 

 School in Manchester, so also in Liverpool, they are striving to compete with Ger- 

 many in technical matters. 



f>l inquired recently as to the efficiency of the heating and ventilation after two 

 years experience, and Mr. Forbes, the director, favored me with tlie following reply, 

 dated Liverpool Nov. 28, 1903: "In regard to the heating and ventilating system 

 of the museums I am sorry to report not quite favorably. This, however, is not the 

 fault of the system of Key, which, by the way, has been further perfected, but by 

 reason of the intake aperture for the fresh air having of necessity, and unfortunately, 

 to be placed in a 'well' (surrounded by walls 70 to 80 feet high) , with which the air 

 from the galleries is discharged and necessarily so constantly being redriven into 

 the Museum. We are thinking of changing the ' intake ' openings — a costly pro- 

 cedure — and when this is done, I believe all we can desire would be attained." 



