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Great Elector to the present day. At the change of guard we 

 saw the amusing "goose step," another legacy of the past. The 

 Tiergarten has greatly changed for the better, and the Sieges- 

 Allee has been added at the expense of the Emperor, with thirty- 

 two statues of Prussian rulers placed on either side, and as a 

 background to each a semicircular bench is placed, fianked at 

 either end by the portrait busts of contemporary statesmen or 

 warriors : the whole effect is dignified and most interesting. At 

 Charlottenberg the palace was visited and the mausoleum. 



I had included Monaco in my itinerary, that I might see how 

 near to my dream of a museum of the sea and its inhabitants the 

 fine Oceanographic Museum of the Prince of Monaco might 

 approach ; I had already seen the Marine Station at Naples, but I 

 had not known of the Museum fiir Meereskunde in Berlin. On 

 my former visit there was a small aquarium, but now I found a 

 large and sufficiently inclusive museum in Georgenstrasse 34-36, 

 provided with an excellent guide-book from which I may trans- 

 late the explanatory introdu(5lion. The germ of this museum seems 

 to have been the collection in the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm Uni- 

 versity made by Baron F. Von Richthofen in 1890. I have taken 

 from this same guide-book several of the excellent illustrations. 



"The object of the museum is first, by the aid of its colle(5lions, 

 to arouse interest and to disseminate widely a knowledge of the 

 Sea and its phenomena, then, by research, to make known the 

 wealth of its life, and its economic value and also the national 

 significance of commerce, navigation and naval power. The size 

 of the ocean, its chemical and phj-sical properties and the ocean 

 currents are illustrated by an oceanographical collection. In an 

 especial room, the 'Instrumentarium', instruments are kept which 

 are used for navigation and ocean investigation. In a biological 

 section the life of the sea is exhibited, and in a fisheries section is 

 shown the economic use of sea creatures. One collecftion is de- 

 voted to the History of Ship-building, Navigation, Commerce, 

 Harbors and Life-saving apparatus from the political-economic 

 point of view. Besides these three collections there is that of the 

 Imperial Marine illustrating the history and development of the 

 German navy. [229] 



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