and Laboratory Methods. 



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possible from exposure to it should be chosen. On this account, and because 

 their surroundings have an aesthetic value which enhances the interest of the 

 museum building, and imparts also the pleasurable stimulus of expectation, 



Fig. 2. — Art Clalleries and Museum, Glasgow. 



museums may well be placed in public parks, squares and gardens. Walks, 

 parterres, diversified approaches, and even the use of symbolic statuary could be 

 elaborated, most helpfully, but usually the relinquishment of such designs is 

 imperative from lack of room or money. As in all efforts at embellishment, effects, 

 unless delicately and effectively designed, are either overdone or miss the mark 

 through insipidit)^ perhaps it is better to omit such accessories. 



Fig. :> — Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 



The museum building, in its exterior, furnishes, of course, room for some 

 latitude in design and ornamentation. It is a proper principle, however, in archi- 

 tecture that types of buildings, denoting separate and exclusive uses, having been 



