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grew artistically and the ribbon gardening was the finest seen. 

 In the Z winger we passed through the natural history portion of 

 the museum noting on the way a remarkable group of birds of 

 Paradise. The good collections of the Ethnographic Museum will 



be listed in the sequel, but 

 here we may mention the 

 beautiful arrangement of 

 the Hawaiian feather gar- 

 ments, of which this muse- 

 um has a choice collection, 

 including the cloak with 

 green feathers formerly in 

 private hands in Loudon. 

 The iron case in which 

 these are kept is most suit- 

 able for such purpose, and 

 I hope the Bishop Museum 

 may later have a similar 

 one for the better preserva- 

 tion of her treasures in that 

 line : drawings and speci- 

 fications were obtained for 

 that purpose. Perhaps the 

 thing that attracted us most 

 in this feather exhibit was 

 the skilful way in which the 

 plain illustrations of the 

 Bishop Museum publica- 

 tion on Hawaiian feather 

 work had been colored and arranged in frames on the wall. It was 

 well to see so many capes and cloaks together in their own colors 

 as they had never been assembled before. We afterwards saw the 

 same process used in the Dominion Museum in Wellington, N. /., 

 but on a much smaller scale, and it was a source of regret that the 

 museum could not have published the original memoir with these 

 attractive specimens of the old Hawaiian art in color. 



In Leipzig the south side of the Konigsplatz is mostly occupied 

 by the Grassi Museum which was erected in 1 89 ; 96 from a bequest 



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