584 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



skulls appears to be not unimportant. The director is D. J. Cun- 

 ninoham, professor of anatoni}', also well known as an anthropologist." 

 The Anatomical Institute is excellenth' installed, the large dissecting 

 hall ])eing light, air}^, and furnished with the most ])eautiful dissec- 

 tions, which here are preferred even to the best colored pictures. 



UNIVERSITY (trinity colle(;e. ) 



The university (Trinit}^ College) consists of an extended group of 

 buildings beautifully situated in a large park w^hich is quite within 

 the city. I could not examine it, however, because it would have 

 consumed more time than I had at my disposal. 



XIII.— PARIS. 



My remarks may well be somewhat brief, considering the abundance 

 of matter and the fact that Paris is universally known. I contine 

 m3^self to a few notes on my observations. 



40. MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



[Museum d'Histoire Naturelle au Jardin des Plautes.] 



The majority of the museum halls in the Jardin des Plantes are of 

 the old-fashioned style, wdiich have been already criticised by J. Mar- 

 cou in his book, well worth reading, De la Science en France, 1869. 

 But in 1889 a large, new, zoological museum was completed, which, 

 as I then saw it, was nearly filled and is now alread}^ overcrowded. 

 Furthermore, there was built three years ago a paleontological, com- 

 parative anatomical, and anthropological museum, as the first of a 

 series of new galleries which are to be located adjoining each other on 

 the Rue de ButJ'on, the southern boundary of the Garden, their long 

 sides turned toward the Garden and the street. 



ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION (gALERIES DE ZOOLOGIe). 



The Galeries de Zoologie is a large rectangular building, 100 meters 

 long, 02 to TO meters wide, and a])out 25 meters high (without cupola), 

 with a lighted court 70 meters long, -tl wide, and 20 high, and three 

 galleries superposed. To say it is a failure is not mj- judgment alone. 

 The exterior is in very good taste. The great glass-covered lighted 

 court was designed by the architect, J. Andre, as a central space to 

 be ornamented with plants, and was not intended for the collections. 

 It is full of large mammals, mounted on too conspicuous wooden 

 bases — an immense herd, all standing free and some of them impossible 

 to inspect except at a distance. The entire space of the height of three 



«Mr. Cunningham has since been appointed professor of anatomy in Edinburgh, 

 as successor to Sir William Turner. The director of the Anatomical Institute in 

 Dublin is now Prof. J. Symington, formerly in Belfast. 



