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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

Other Institutions

Other Institutions.

Canterbury has the advantage of possessing many flourishing public institution The School of Art, Christchurch, was established by the College Governors in 1882; the Art Gallery owes its origin to the Art Society, the site being the gift of the Government. The Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, also founded by the College Governors, is surrounded by 660 acres of land. The commodious buildings which cost over £20,000, provide accommodation for the Director and teaching-staff and for forty-five students. The fees are on a low scale. The farm building are complete, and include a well-equipped dairy. Instruction is given in agriculture chemistry, botany, mechanics, physics, surveying, &c.

The Public Library, Christchurch, under the control of the College Government contains reading-rooms, a circulating library of 16,842 books, and a [unclear: refere] library of 10,178 volumes. Numbers of magazines and newspapers are provided The number of subscribers is 1,620, and the average daily attendance between 700 and 800.

The Museum, Christchurch, is a handsome pile of stone buildings; the collections are large and varied. They are separated into two groups: (1) Those from New Zealand; (2) those from foreign countries. In the New Zealand department the skeletons of whales and moas, as well as the collections of shells (tertiary and fossils) and rocks, are specially good; and the Maori collection, exhibited in a [unclear: Ma] house, is also of considerable interest. In the foreign department, the [unclear: geologi] mineralogical, and ethnological collections are the most extensive, but there is also a good illustrative series of Egyptian and Roman antiquities, as well as of the remain of prehistoric man in Europe and America.

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This institution owes its origin and success to the foresight, skill, and energy of the late Sir Julius von Haast, and to the munificence of the Provincial Government.

The philanthropic institutions embrace the Christchurch, Akaroa, Ashburton, Timaru, and Waimate Hospitals; the Sunnyside Asylum for the Insane; the Rhodes Convalescent Home; the Memorial Home for the Aged at Woolston; the City Mission and Destitute Men's Home, Christchurch; the Deaf-and-Duinb Asylum at Sumner; the Orphanage, Lyttelton; and the industrial School at Burnham.