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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



who, like Mr. Partington, make private collections with knowl- 

 edge are doing work for ethnology that cannot always be done by 

 the large museums, and when such collections come at last to the 

 suitable museum they are regarded rightly as among the most 

 useful acquisitions. 





II. CARVED WOODEN BOWL, BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A visit to Kew Garden and its museums showed considerable 

 increase and improved arrangement, especialh' in the economic 

 museum, but the day was saddened by the remembrance that my 

 host on my first visit in 1866, then the indefatigable and hospitable 

 Director Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, who had also welcomed me on 

 my last visit as he was still working over the Flora Indiea, although 

 no longer Director, had since passed away in the fulness of years 

 and of well-earned honors. In that earlier visit I stood between 

 Dr. Hooker and Rajah Brooke, the only spectators as the Court 

 passed by on the preliminary view of the beautiful Horticultural 

 Exhibition at Kensington. The Queen Mother Alexandra, then a 

 young matron and Princess of Wales is, I believe, the onh' survivor 

 of the principal personages in that royal cortege headed by Victoria, 

 Queen and Empress. [162] 



