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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



Conservator H. W. Fischer did everything to facilitate the exami- 

 nation of their many treasures. 



Passing through Haarlem we were fortunate enough to hear a 

 recital on the great organ :' these are given once a week by skilled 

 organists, and it spoke well for the taste of the people of Haarlem 

 that the large church was filled by an attentive audience. In the 

 Museum van Kunstnijverheid (Art Industries, Fig. 41 ) was a good 

 collection of the peculiar method of printing cloth known in Java as 



42. RIJKSMl'SEUM, AMSTERDAM. 



batik, which will be described when we come to Java in the course 

 of this mission. At Haarlem there is also the Teyler's Museum 

 of Art and Natural History, of which the new wing (Fig. 40) faces 

 the river Spaarne with an imposing facade. The building of these 

 two museums in this beautiful town shows what can be done in this 

 line by the people of Holland, and with such examples it is strange 

 that the Government museums in Leiden are not better housed. 



In Amsterdam of course the Rijksmuseum was visited with 

 delight and profit, although no ethnological collection was there ; 

 the arrangement of Rembrandt's Night Watch, the central attrac- 



'This organ was built in 1735-38 by Christopher Muller and restored in 

 1868. It has 3 keyboards, 64 stops, and 5000 pipes. While no longer the 

 largest it is still one of the finest. [194] 



