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The Tower of London is now a great Museum devoted to the custody of the Crown Jewels and of an unparalleled collection of armor and small arms. In this place as in many other European Museums the history of the building adds dignity and interest to the material. But in h the construction and furnishing of new museums little will be found here to imitate. The illumination, stairways, convenience of floor space, cases and fixtures are all as bad as they could well be for the purposes of exhibition.

The Anthropological Institute holds its sessions in the building of the Zoological Society, but the month of August found the members all scattered, so that the Curator had small opportunity of studying the practical methods of the Society.