TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
But one building remains to be mentioned, the 
most interesting of them all. This is the University 
Museum, of which at present only the west wing is 
finished, on Bloor Street, east of McMaster Hall. It 
is to be completed ultimately by adding the front on 
Bloor Street and an eastern wing on Avenue Road, 
opposite the Department of Household Science and 
Annesley Hall. The museum owes much to private 
benefactions and is partly supported by the Province. 
It contains a great variety of collections and is admir- 
ably arranged to show the evolution in the progress 
of civilization. Egyptian and American antiquities 
are especially well represented. Lovers of the red 
man should not fail to see the Paul Peel collection of 
paintings in the west hall of the main building. To 
members of the Congress the main interest, of course, 
will be in the mineralogical and geological or paleon- 
tological specimens, of which detailed accounts will 
be found elsewhere in this handbook. 
Members who take an interest in the flora of 
Toronto and its vicinity will find an article on that. 
subject also. It may be added here for their benefit 
that the Department of Botany and the Faculty of 
Forestry have their home together on the east side of 
the Queen’s park, on the south corner of Grosvenor 
Street. The park itself has very beautiful flower- 
beds, but the most charming sights of this kind are to 
be seen in some of the private gardens of Rosedale, on 
the slopes in the neighbourhood of the new Govern- 
ment House. 
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