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ABSTRACT A REPORT has just been issued on a visit to the Museums of America and Canada, by V. Ball, M.A., F.R.S., Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. Prof. Ball visited a large
number of institutions in various parts of North America, and in his introduction says that he was impressed especially with the system, thoroughness, and good order which appeared to
pervade the arrangements in the majority of these institutions. Many of them are of late growth, but already possers an astonishing degree of vigour, while their suppbrters and officers look
forward in a spirit of great hopefulness to what must be described as gigantic extensions of their spheres of usefulness in the future. Largely dependent for their existence on the
liberality of private individuals, they take what aid they can get from the Government, and it amounts, in the majority of cases, merely to State recognition. Those of them which possess
directly educational functions claim an abundant harvest of good result?, and there can be no doubt that the facilities which now exist for instruction in science and art are largely availed
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