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likewise is for its maintenance. In the laro-c, light, clean dissecting 

 hall is such an effective ventilating apparatus that when it is set in 

 operation, as required, it obviates all odors. -The iron cases contain- 

 ing the collection, located in well-lighted halls, are of the Dresden 

 pattern, although not of the most improved, type. 



The Technical High School (annual expenditure $125,000), whose 

 mineralogical collection I visited, possessed nothing worthy of men- 

 tion from a technical-museum standpoint. 



CONCLUSION. 



In reviewing all these experiences of travel — to make clear what 

 there was new to learn, independent of old and well-known matters, 

 especially in connection with the building of a new museum in Dres- 

 den — I note particularly two things that deserve especial mention: 



(1) The new ventilating and heating methods employed in the 

 museums of Liverpool and Glasgow, originating contemporaneously 

 though independentl}' of each other, and also installed in the technical 

 schools in ]VIanchester and Liverpool, as well as in the Kylands Library 

 in Manchester, elsewhere in use only in America — has hitherto been 

 entirely disregarded in Germany, so far as I know; and 



(2) The plan of construction of the new Brussels Natural Histor^^ 

 Museum, which, being accurateh' adapted to certain special purposes, 

 ought not to be copied without modifications, is ver}^ instructive and 

 worthy of imitation as respects its .lighting and utilization of space, 

 and also as regards its low cost, which has not, however, been allowed 

 to detract from its pleasing effect. It, therefore, appears to be most 

 noteworthy. 



In general, notwithstanding the shortcomings that attach to most 

 human things, the Natural History Museum and the Museum of the 

 Koyal College of Surgeons in London remain in many respects at the 

 head as models in the line of technic of natural science museums and in 

 the scientitic usefulness of the collections. There is probably no 

 museum official who has not learned more in those museums than every- 

 where else. The method of installation in the Ethnographic Museum 

 in Oxford is unique in its way, and in a high degree suggestive and 

 instructive. The liylands Library, in Manchester, remains, notwith- 

 standing its man}' shortcomings as a library building, a magnificent 

 jewel box. Finally, the Galeries d' Anatomic in the Jardin des Plantes 

 in Paris is a most remarkable production, not only as a museum 

 structure, but also as an example of the art of exhibition, particularly 

 the ground floor, on account of its excellent lighting and the simplicity 

 of its plan. 



Although I particularize in these several respects in concluding this 

 paper, 1 do not wish to cast in the background the many other good 

 things that 1 have alreadv mentioned in their place and for which I 



