TABLE II.-Statistics of museums of art, etc.-Continued.

e There are also 200 specimens of ancient Peruvian pottery, 50 of Amazonian, and 100 of Chinese and Malayian pottery.

d Includes publications of Arundel Society, the Berlin Museum series, and heliotypes of the Gray collection.

The library has a small collection of enamels, paintings on porcelain, copies of old masters, majolica, and mosaics-in all, 59 pieces.
h Including the Vanderbilt collection of drawings by old masters, 690 in number.

i 427 of these are articles in gold and silver belonging to the Curium treasure; there is also a collection of ancient coins, the gift of Joseph W. Drexel, esq.
Including the "King collection" of gems, 331 pieces, gift of John Taylor Johnston; a collection of Babylonian cylinders, and the "Cesnola Curium" pieces.
The MacCallum collection of laces, 721 pieces. The museum has also 11 pieces of tapestry; also valuable Eastern robes, bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix.
Including the "Avery collection of Oriental Porcelain," 1,158 pieces, and the Phoenix bequest of bronzes, lacquer, oriental ivories, robes, etc., in all, about 700 pieces.
m Including valuable collection of Peruvian pottery, gift of W. W. Evans.

n Including collection of casts, gift of J. W. Drexel, and S. L. M. Barlow's collection of ancient Egyptian pottery.

o The Abbott collection; the museum also contains the Lenox collection of Nineveh sculptures, 13 pieces. The society owns a large collection of antiquities relating to North and South America not yet displayed.

p Of these 92 were given to the academy by the will of the late James A. Suydam, its former treasurer; of the remaining 400, 200 are portraits of members and 200 paintings
by members.
q Also tapestry from Warwick Castle.

The collection of students' work exhibited at the Centennial by the South Kensington authorities was given to this museum; the whole of the superb India collection
was also given. The museum exhibits a rare and very complete collection of Persian stuffs, etc. It owns an important collection of textile fabrics, embroideries, and costumes;
specimens of work in wood, metal, and stone, illustrating the use of ornament in architecture; many articles of work in the precious metals, and the electrotype reproductions
of the South Kensington medieval work in metal exhibited by Elkington & Co., at the Centennial; the reproductions of the Hildesheim treasures, also Oriental and European
enamels. Many fine specimens of Oriental work in pottery, bronze, and jade are also included in the loan collections now on exhibition.

8 A large collection of relics of the "Mound Builders" of North America, loaned by Dr. M. W. Dickeson, is on view.

$200 original drawings, 200 Braun's autotypes, 558 lithographs, 150 photographs.

u Also 10 fac similies of illuminated manuscripts.

v Several volumes of fine engravings, among them the Musée Français, Musée Royal, Hogarth's Works, Canova's Works, etc., are in the library of the Athenæum.
w Over 100 photographs of the leading works of art in its possession are taken, to be obtained only at the gallery.

x 2 remarkable Japanese porcelain vases made for the Centennial, 1 large Japanese porcelain bowl, 5 specimens of cloisonné, old Chinese, and modern Elkington; in addition
to these, many rare and valuable articles, antique &Ld modern, which cannot be classified in this table, are in the Hall of Bronzes and Ceramic Ware of the Corcoran Gallery
of Art.

APPENDIX A.

PAPERS

CONNECTED WITH

EARLY EFFORTS TO INTRODUCE THE STUDY OF DRAWING

AS A BRANCH OF

POPULAR EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES;

WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF SIMILAR EFFORTS IN ENGLAND, BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOUTH KENSINGTON:

1.-Introduction.

II.-Rembrandt Peale's "Graphics." Philadelphia, 1845.

III.-Minifie's Maryland Institute Addresses. Baltimore, Md., 1852.

IV.-Dwight's art articles in Barnard's American Journal of Education, 1857.
V.-Superintendent Philbrick's report. Boston, 1871.

VI.-Some English examples, including a brief history of the efforts made by Benjamin Robert Haydon to promote education in art, in Great Britain, from 1804 to 1846: with the criticism by Mr. John Sparkes, in 1874, on the erroneous methods of training in art then inculcated by the authorities of South Ken. sington.

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