. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 558 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, Fig. 93.—Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, hall (engineering section). West trial art of Europe from ancient to modern times, ethnographical collections, Persian and Indian collections, Chinese and Japanese col- lections, ancient Egyptian and Chaldean arts, furniture and decora- tive woodwork, casts of architectural ornament. 2. Tech »(>1<JII: M i n - eral, animal, and vege- tal )le, chemical
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 558 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, Fig. 93.—Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, hall (engineering section). West trial art of Europe from ancient to modern times, ethnographical collections, Persian and Indian collections, Chinese and Japanese col- lections, ancient Egyptian and Chaldean arts, furniture and decora- tive woodwork, casts of architectural ornament. 2. Tech »(>1<JII: M i n - eral, animal, and vege- tal )le, chemical i)roducts and manufactures; eco- nomic botany. 3. Etujlneer'uuj: Civil engineering, mechanical engineering, models of ships and marine engines, guns and gunnery. 4. Natural history: Zoology, geology, miner- alogy (geology and min- erals of Scotland sepa- rately represented). 5. The library: Over 12,000 volumes; patents. The museum is free on five days of the week from 10 a. m. to •! p. m., Saturdays from 10 a, m to 10 p. m., Wednesdays also from 0 to 10 p. m., Sundays from 2 to 5 p. m., on which account a large portion of the collection must nat- urally suffer. The build- ing consists of a spacious hall with skylight and two galleries—one above the other (figs. 95 and 96) and with ten large adjoining rooms partially supplied with sk3'lights and galler- ies. It measures in ex- terior 133 feet long and 206 feet wide, and has 122,000 square feet of ex- hibition floor space. It is in some parts insufhcientlj' lighted and has the defects of similar buildings. The cases are of wood with clumsy framework, and are black. To make them dust proof, velvet strips have been placed between the frames and the doors, but without grooves, and then the doors are screwed on to the outer framework; besides being locked up at several Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
Size: 1731px × 1444px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsmithsonianinstitutio, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
