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without passing through the exhibition halls. All seems to be 

 prepared for the use and comfort of students, and doubtless many 

 avail themselves of the grand opportunity. Even four chambers 

 are built on the face of the cliff for the accommodation of persons 

 who come to the museum for original research on marine subjects. 

 Here, as in other museums, are two distinct colle(5lious, one for 

 exhibition, the other for study. 



The Institute Oceanographique of Paris now owns all the 

 Monaco museum and its dependencies, the Prince having, in 1896, 

 given it with a foundation of four million francs for its perpetual 

 maintenance. It is recognized (as is the French custom) by the 

 Government as a public utility, but is otherwise independent. The 

 administrative direction belongs to a council of administration, 

 the scientific direction to a Comite de Perfe(ftionnement, a body 

 of most distinguished scientists, including the Director and our 

 countryman, and friend of this Museum, the late Alexander 

 Agassiz, whose father, Louis Agassiz, was my honored instructor 

 at Harvard ; the son was a valued friend from those days until his 

 lamented death. 



. Tuesday, 30th July, we left Monte Carlo in the morning and, 

 after changing time and also wasting it at Vintimille, passed into 

 Italy, arriving at Genoa at 5:20 in the afternoon. The statue of 

 Columbus met us as we left the station. The next day was spent 

 partly resting in a private garden and partly on duty in the 

 municipil museum. We took train for Rome August ist, passing 

 through Pisa, where we had a good view of the leaning tower, 

 arriving in Ro:ne late in the afternoon, making our headquarters 

 at the Hotel Regina. 



So far as etlinological museums were concerned our visit was 

 unproductive, for owing to the summer vacation of the Collegio 

 Romano the museum was closed. This was visited on a former 

 journey and found to contain a large amount of valuable material 

 collected mainly by the Roman missionaries, but without much 

 scientific arrangement, so we were the more anxious to see if mod- 

 ern methods had been adopted here. We were unable to find any 

 responsible persons in charge, and the caretakers were not willing 

 to take on themselves any responsibility. The Museo Kircheriauo, 



which is under the same roof, is mainly archaeological andKtruscan. 



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