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petty jealousy of officials who were his superiors in rank, 

 and who chafed at the knowledge that they were in every 

 other respect immeasurably below him. That the health 

 of Mr. Deutsch was undermined by the pestilential atmo- 

 sphere of the place in which he was compelled to work is 

 not denied, but this might have been brought about by mere 

 ignorance. The gist of the complaint in his case is, that 

 long after the prime cause of his maladies was ascertained, 

 and while even yet there was a possibility of prolonging his 

 life, while the Trustees were most anxious about him, and 

 most courteous to him, he was systematically snubbed, his 

 health and comfort were wholly disregarded, and he was 

 denied even ordinary courtesies, by the two men Messrs, 

 Jones and Rye, under whom he was condemned to serve. 

 Towards the end of his life he ought to have been sitting 

 beside a fire. Cold, and especially cold draughts, were 

 fatal to him. And he ought to have had a cup of hot tea 

 or a basin of broth whenever he wanted it, but all this was 

 denied him. He sat shivering in the cold, with no fire to 

 warm himself at, the chill draughts causing him the in- 

 tensest suffering. Those sufferings might have been miti- 

 gated could he have closed the doors which are intended 

 to cut off the bitter winds. But Mr. Jones and Mr. Rye 

 had ordered them to be kept open. The inmates of the 

 Library are tortured, but they dare not close the open 

 doors which cause their torments. 



The case of Mr. Warren brings out even more em- 

 phatically not only the bad system of ventilation in the 

 Museum, but also the offensive treatment of scholars and 

 gentlemen by uneducated and incompetent men placed in 

 positions of authority. Mr. Warren was one of the ablest 

 and most industrious men in the Museum. He stood 

 always most high in the opinion of Signor Panizzi, who, 

 however much we may grudge the reward he paid for the 



