TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 



But one building remains to be mentioned, the 

 mofet interesting of them all. This is the University 

 Museum, of which at present only the west wing is 

 finished, on Bloor Street, east of McMaster Hall. It 

 is to be completed ultimately by adding the front on 

 Bloor Street and an eastern wing on Avenue Road, 

 opposite the Department of Household Science and 

 Annesley Hall. The museum owes much to private 

 benefactions and is partly supported by the Province. 

 It contains a great variety of collections and is admir- 

 ably arranged to show the evolution in the progress 

 of civilization. Egyptian and American antiquities 

 are especially well represented. Lovers of the red 

 man should not fail to see the Paul Peel collection of 

 paintings in the west hall of the main building. To 

 members of the Congress the main interest, of course, 

 will be in the mineralogical and geological or paleon- 

 tological specimens, of which detailed accounts will 

 be found elsewhere in this handbook. 



Members who take an interest in the flora of 

 Toronto and its vicinity will find an article on that 

 subject also. It may be added here for their benefit 

 that the Department of Botany and the Faculty oi 

 Forestry have their home together on the east side of 

 the Queen's park, on the south corner of Grosvenor 

 Street. The park itself has very beautiful flower- 

 beds, but the most charming sights of this kind are to 

 be seen in some of the private gardens of Rosedale, on 

 the slopes in the neighbourhood of the new Govern- 

 ment House. 



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