This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...by Science Classes in and near the metropolis. Structure.--Owing to want of space and the imperative necessity of providing for the reception of the selected objects from the old Patent Museum, this Collection has for the time been dispersed. If space can hereafter be provided, a new series of examples must be collected, so as to carry out the strong recommendations of the Committee of Reference already mentioned, supported as these recommendations arc by the Report of the Treasury Committees of 18S4 and 1889. The Educational Collection, comprising models of school furniture and fittings, and other educational appliances, which formed a prominent part c' the contents of the Museum from 1857 to 1878, but which of late years has been very inadequately shown in the southern galleries, was in 1888 returned to the exhibitors. These models, &c. have been of great practical value to school managers, especially during the rapid extension of school buildings which followed the Education Act of 1870. The object of their exhibition has, however, now to a great extent been attained, and as the space occupied by them was urgently needed for other purposes, it has been decided to discontinue this collect: on, at least for the present. Fish Culture Collections.--In 1864 Mr. Buckland commenced the construction of a fish hatching apparatus in connexion with the Food and Animal Products Collection, towards which the Department contributed a small sum in 1865. This apparatus, requiring a constant supply of fresh water, was erected apart from the rest of the Collection, in the central corridor of the buildings at the South of the Royal Horticultural Gardens. Mr. Buckland received a fee from the Department of Science and Art from year to year for superintending it. In the An...