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Britain, set up in a large gallery at Kensington. This is a most excellent and stimulating plan and I would recommend the Director of the National Museum to make such an experiment, commencing with our public schools. The Lecture Room is not greatly needed in June for other purposes.

I must not neglect to mention the India Museum, which is very near to the South Kensington, containing the spoils of the Orient. My visit to this charming place was made very instructive and delightful by the courtesy of the Keeper, Mr. C. Purdon Clarke.

In a collection devoted to a single region, the national as well as the ethnic idea are sufficiently prominent prima facie. The Keeper, therefore, has only the notion of effect to study. In the India museum, it is found most convenient to arrange by material and style of treatment and the visitor, therefore, especially the expert and the specialist, may study his jade or metal on textile without embarrssment or distraction. The plan of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is somewhat similar to that of the India Museum.

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