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My stay at the College of Surgeons was brief. The removal of Prof. Flower to South Kensington and the absence of Dr. Garson from the City deprived me of that intelligent guidance which reveals the genius of a museum.

At South Kensington, as is well known, the arrangement of material is topical in its primary concept, the whole being officially connected with the English system of technical instruction. As soon as an idea, a series of objects belonging to a class or to a country or to both is sufficiently worked out, the material is placed on exhibition in excellent shape and a hand-book catalogue is prepared. This system is worthy of imitation and many of its features already appear in the U.S. National Museum. 

The unit system of interchangeable tablets, trays, boxes, sliding draws and screens is the perfection of installation. In carrying out its plan the Kensington Museum does not scruple to use copies and pictures of type forms which are not procurable, and large series of electrotype and other reproductions are furnished to other museums. I had the great pleasure of examining the artwork of prize scholars in the Public Schools of Great