STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 577 



Mediaeval and Later Antiquities, including the Mather collection of 

 miniatures and medals relating to the Bonaparte famih', 1882, iv, 108 

 pp., with illu.stratioiis (sixpence for each part). 1 call attention also to 

 the valuable writings of a former director of the museum, H. H. 

 Higgins, Museums of Natural History" (1) Museum Visitors, (2) 

 Museum Desiderata, (8) Museum Arrangements, (4:) Museum Appli- 

 ances, (5) The British Museum of Natural History (1884, 43 pp., with 

 illustrations, sixpence), and to I. A. Picton's paper. Primeval Man, a 

 lecture illustrative of the prehistoric remains in the ethnographical 

 collection of the Liverpool Museum, 1881 (27 pp., with 5 plates, two- 

 pence). Collecting expeditions are organized by the museum, such as 

 one in ]89S, which went to Socotra. 



The annual expenditure is $52,000. The officers are: Director, 

 H. O. Forbes; curators of the Derby Museum, J. A. Clubb and W. S. 

 Laverock; and curator of the Mayer Museum, P. Entwistle. 



XII.— DUBLIN. 



Dublin is a seaport with about 250,000 inhabitants, without factories, 

 and consequently^ reasonably clean, though not free from soot. 



36. SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM. 



The Science and Art Museum comprises, with the National Library 

 (tig. 108), a large, imposing, and beautiful group of buildings, inclosing 

 on three sides a courtyard, which is fenced b}^ a grill in front. The 

 central building, the Leinster House (the former castle of the Duke of 

 Leinster), is occupied by the Ro^'al Dublin Society. Here are also 

 located the administrative offices of the museum. On one side of this 

 is situated the museum and on the other the library (fig. 108), both 

 erected nearly alike by T. N. Deane & Sons and opened in 1890. The 

 natural history department has a wing to itself (fig. 109). In the rear 

 is an extensive park, in which, near the library, stands the National 

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The Science and Art Museum is open weekdays, admission free, 

 from 11 a. m. till 5 p. m. and closed onl}' on Good Friday and Christ- 

 mas Eve. On Tuesdays the department of art and industry, and on 

 Thursdays the natural science department, are open until 10 o'clock 

 in the evening. The former is open on Sundays from 2 to 5 p. m. 

 The number of visitors in 1900 was 425,884, of which 64,165 came on 

 Sunday afternoons. 



This museum, like the one of the same name in Edinburgh, is copied 

 more or less after the South Kensington Museum, with the addition 

 of a natural science collection. This uniformity of the museums in 

 the Island Kingdom corresponds to the uniformity of life there, which 

 in Germany and France is much more varied. It is often said that 



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