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bestowed on the labelling of the latter, an explanatory label being attached 

 to each principal pipe, retort, furnace, etc., etc., in the model, numbered con- 

 secutively, so that by reading the labels in order, the visitor may follow the 

 process of the manufacture illustrated from beginning to end. 



In the matter of GUIDES this Museum may claim to be a pioneer. For 

 one halfpenny can be bought a well-printed pamphlet on good paper, by 

 which the visitor can easily discover where to find any particular class of 

 objects, and obtain a considerable amount of information concerning many 

 of them. 



A General Guide is being brought out in parts and chapters at one penny,, 

 each containing a brief general history of the branch of art to which it 

 belongs with references to all the objects in that part of the Collections. 



Another special feature in the way of aids to the visitor is the help given 

 in the selection of books bearing upon the arts and sciences which the 

 Collections illustrate. In conspicuous places are hung lists of books in the 

 National Library, which may be useful to visitors to the Museum, arranged 

 for the Art and Antiquities in forty-one classes — Renaissance Art, Gothic 

 Architecture, Jewellery, Fans, Lace, Ethnography, etc., etc. ; and there are 

 similar lists for the Botany, Zoology, and Mineralogy, and copies of these' 

 lists can be bought in pamphlet form for a penny each. 



During the winter months there are frequent Demonstrations, or informal 

 Lectures, by members of the Museum staff and others, for which tickets of 

 admission are distributed free of charge, and by these various means it is 

 hoped that many who would otherwise wander among the objects in an 

 aimless and desultory manner may be induced to take a real interest in some 

 branch of industrial art or of natural science, and that the objects for whichi 

 the public maintain these Collections may thus be better attained. 



