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aneous with the University, dating from 1809, but the collections 
became too large for the building which contained them, The 
present building was opened by William II. on December 2nd, 1889. 
It is an enormous building of three stories, and consists of ten large 
rooms. The ground floor only is accessible to the public. The 
upper floors are divided into rooms for storing duplicates, work-rooms, 
offices for the staff, etc. The staff comprises a director, 18 zoologists, 
5 preparators, 7 assistants, and 6 attendants. 
Zool. Inst. 
Birds. 
Invertebrata. 
Insects 
and Crustacea. 
German Vertebrata. 
Vertebrata. 
Rept., Amph., 
and Fishes. 
Whales and Large Fishes. 
Corridor. 
Hall. 
Part of the building is lit from the roof, the rest from side-windows 
only. The cases are mostly of iron framework, with sheet glass, 
painted inside an ochrey yellow. They are arranged to form bays in 
some rooms, whilst in others they are continuous along the whole 
length of the room. In the room for the invertebrates a number of 
the windows have frames to support transparent and semi-transparent 
animals, such as tunicates, molluscs, worms, and anemones. 
The museum is enormously rich in material, including many 
Types and rare original specimens, as well as the collections of many 
travellers and explorers. 
The Zoological Gardens of Berlin are said to be the finest in the 
world. That I can quite well believe, but to describe them is beyond 
my power. I saw there such rarities as the Musk Ox, the American 
Bison, the European Bison, the Giraffe, the Chimpanzee, etc. I was 
also much interested in seeing the South American Condor, the 
species recently presented to us and now mounted in our museum. 
One example which I saw was brought to the Gardens in 1852, but 
to my eye it did not appear to be so large as our specimen. 
The Aquarium of Berlin is in the main street—the Unter den 
Linden. It is arranged as a grotto, and lit with electric incandescent 
lights. There is a most extensive and varied collection. Indeed 
everything that it is possible to procure and keep alive is to be found 
there, such as amphibians, fishes, and invertebrata. 
In Berlin there are many museums, but time does not permit me 
to do more than mention a few:—The Anatomical Institute, the 
Botanical Institute, the Forestry Department Museum, the Geological 
and Palaeontological Institute Museum. 
