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rooms cover as many natural or ethnic subjects, and hundreds of specimens are here that cannot be duplicated, because of the early day at which the collection began to form. 

What is interesting to the ethnologist in Hamburg is to be seen in two buildings the Kunsthalle and the Gewerbe-schule Museum. The former is the art collection of the city and is really an imposing building in the midst of a great forest path. The Gewerbe-schule is on the order of South Kensington and is worth visiting. The gaps in European art become truly painful when the hiatus of a millennium is pointed out by the majolica pottery following immediately the later Roman. 

The Ethnographic collection is as poor in its installation as it is rich in material. It is to be hoped that it will either receive better attention to be sent to Dr. Meyer in Dresden, who will give it better dress.

The museums of Brussels are superb in material and treatment and are worthy of the distinguished men whose monuments they are. The one series which makes them pereminent is in the natural Gallery. It was gathered from the bone caves, which have yielded such wonderful palaeontological results. The specimens are mounted with the