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METROPOLITAN TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUMS. 



South Kensington Museum (Animal and Food Products, and Building 

 Materials). Free, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays. Wednesdays and 

 and Thursdays, 6d. each. Ten to Four, and Seven to Ten. 



Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn-street (Mineral Products). Free, 

 daily, Fridays excepted, Ten to Four. 



Museum of Economic Botany, Kew Gardens (Vegetable Products). 

 Free, daily, One to Six. 



Industrial Museum, Crystal Palace (Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral 

 Products). Free to Visitors of the Palace. 



Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, Bloomsbury -square (Medicinal 

 Products). Free to Members and their Friends. 



East India House Museum, Leadenhall-street (East Indian Products)* 

 Free on Mondays and Fridays ; by Tickets, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday, Ten to Three. 



Economic Museum, Perryn House, Twickenham, (Domestic Economy). 

 Open on Wednesday, between Two and Five, gratuitously. Admission, 

 by Tickets, obtainable from the Society of Arts . 



Museum of the Botanical Society, Regent' 's-park (Vegetable Produc- 

 tions). Admission by Member's order. 



#*# We shall be glad to receive short notices of the Museums of this 

 character in the Provinces, in order to complete our list. 



THE MINING RECORD OFFICE. 



A testimonial, consisting of a handsome tea and coffee service and silver salver,, 

 ■with a purse of 200 guineas, has been presented to Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S., Keeper 

 of the Mining records, by a number of gentlemen interested in the mineral indus- 

 tries of the empire. Mr. Josiah Berry, F.R.G.S., was deputed to present the testi- 

 monial, and in doing so stated that to Mr. Hunt was due the merit of having initiated 

 and continued the collection and arrangement of the only official statistics in existence 

 of the mineral produce of the British Islands, and that he had undertaken, and with vast 

 labour and experience completed, "the compilation of this admiral series of tabulated 

 information. He had also rendered valuable services for a period of many years to. 

 the various departments of industrial science. 



Professor T. C. Archer, of Liverpool, author of "Popular Economic Bjtany," 

 has been appointed Superintendent of the Industrial Museum of Scotland, 

 Edinburgh. 



