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history in Liverpool, and the Museums of Dublin and 

 Bristol. In London he visited the various collections, 

 taking such notes and drawings as may be of use in 

 completing our own arrangements. He visited also the 

 museum at Chatham. The Curators have every reason 

 to be pleased with the industry and intelligence displayed 

 by the Conservator in the tour which he has made." 



The College approved of the report and agreed 

 that the Conservator should have the use of a clerk to 

 assist him in making out the catalogne. 



Fortunately MacGillivray's journal of his tour of 

 inspection of the museums has been preserved, and it 

 appears to be of so much interest as throwing light on 

 some of the more remarkable features of his character 

 that it is included in this volume passages which 

 are merely technical or without general interest being 

 omitted. Three or four weeks was the time allowed him 

 by the College for the inspection, and it will be seen 

 that he inspected the museums in Glasgow, Liverpool, 

 Dublin, Bristol, and London numbering twenty-four 

 in all and that he accomplished the whole of that work, 

 including his various journeys, from the time he left 

 Edinburgh on 4th September until his return on 29th 

 of that month (three weeks and four days), although 

 there was then no railway to quicken his transit except 

 on a visit from Liverpool to Manchester and back ; and 

 it appears from the journal that he had gained all the 

 information with regard to the different museums, the 

 acquisition of which was the special object of his tour. 

 The contents of the museums, the arrangement of the 



