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dent that both variation and uniformity may be unwisely developed in a hall. 

 Instances of the latter may be noticed in the Kensington Museum, London, and 

 perhaps of the former in the National Museum, Washington. A very judicious 

 result, in the use of various sized cases, is secured in the hall of vertebrate palae- 

 ontology in the New York museum, and may be observed in Fig. 62. This will 

 be further illustrated under Effect. 



There are two contrasted phases in the construction of a Group Case, (1) 

 the group case with legs like a table, (2) the group case with solid pedestal ; Fig. 

 78 shows the former. Fig. 70 the latter. The objection to the former has been 

 made that it suggests an absurdity, in that the ground space, or, if a water group, 

 the pool, etc., of water, is in midair, while the pediment style brings both into 



Fig. 81. — Nimrod Hall, Kensington Museum, London. 



relation with the earth's surface. There is a suggestion of both hypo- and 

 hyper-criticism in this. It is certainly not always convenient to build up a 

 high pedestal, and pedestals of size are ugly objects, if high, while the supported 

 group interferes less with the view of the hall floor, comports better with clean- 

 liness, and practically obfuscates no one by its apparent aerial suspension. 



In the two instances illustrated, the dimensions are for the former, on one 

 side, 3 feet S inches, and on the other 4 feet, with glass sashes four feet high, 

 the wooden moulding at the base l^j inches high, with legs three to four inches 

 square and 20 inches in height. The latter or pedimented case is 5 feet 11 

 inches to 6 feet on the sides with a slate base (Vj inches high, below a wooden 

 moulding S inches high, with the surmounting glass box feet 4 inches high. 



The great moose group in the New York museum, composed and executed 

 by John Rowley, is 29 feet long, 14 feet wide, 12 feet high, and is a very good 

 example of case making on a house-building scale. It is encased on the long 



