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terms his ‘‘ Public Collection”; and this is regularly open to the 
inspection of visitors. The private cabinets for study are arranged in 
the “cottage” at the entrance, and in the ‘‘bird rooms” at the 
opposite end of the museum. The Bird Room on the ground floor is 
already fitted with cabinets and provisionally arranged. The 
collection comprises about 30,000 skins of from 5,000 to 6,000 species, 
and is especially rich in ‘‘ types.” The specimens are preserved, the 
larger ones in glass-topped drawers, and the smaller ones in light 
glass-topped drawer-trays, the birds lying in rows in cardboard 
grooves. This arrangement is found peculiarly convenient, per- 
mitting, as it does, the whole of the individuals of a species to be 

Fic. 2.—THE UpreR PUBLIC GALLERY OF THE ROTHSCHILD Museum, TRING. 
lifted out at once and removed in their own tray to the student’s work- 
room and library. The upper bird room is as yet merely a store-room, 
and above this is another small store-room in the roof, reached by a 
spiral staircase. 
The ‘“‘ cottage” is separated from the Museum by a wide stone 
staircase, which forms the public means of access to the gallery. It 
contains Mr. Rothschild’s own study, the curators’ room, the library, 
and the entomological cabinets. The library is certainly the most 
useful and extensive collection of Natural History serials we have 
seen in a private institution; the special works on Ornithology and 
Entomology are mostly represented, and are being constantly added 
