JOURNAL 93 



Fine skeleton of boa and pike ; a few tolerable corals ; 

 three very fine human skeletons male and female 

 European and male negro. 



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The preparations are on the whole pretty well put 

 up ; but there is a most decided want of taste in the 

 distribution of the articles, which, however, are placed in 

 good order as to their nature but science and taste 

 must go together in museums. 



It is a fine light room ; but for a museum decidedly 

 inferior to that of the Edinburgh College excepting in 

 respect to light. 



Things in general very dirty. Dr. Houston scolding 

 his assistant but in fact the place is not yet arranged. 



Fine fossil horns and bones of the Irish elk among 

 rubbish, in a lumber room ! 



Dr. Houston says the members of the Edinburgh 

 College of Surgeons are continually praising their 

 museum, but for his part he leaves to strangers the 

 praise which the Dublin Museum deserves. All I 

 could say in its praise I said, namely that the apartment 

 is light and elegant. 



Dublin after all is a splendid city. The Irish dialect 

 is detestable to my ear. The people have a peculiar 

 aspect, physically and morally bad. The lower orders 

 have a decided taste for ragged great coats. 



Wednesday, llth September 1833. 



Went to Dr. Houston's at eight, to breakfast. Met 

 Dr. Evanson, a very pleasant person, who asked me the 



