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Natural History Museum. LEYDEN. Route 41, 301
gallantly defended the town during the siege by the Spaniards
(p. 345). This consists of a bronze statue, by Koelman and Mogel,
on a lofty pedestal with reliefs (Vow of the defenders, Battle, Arri-
val of the Water Gueux with supplies, Thanksgiving Service).
At the N.E. corner of the Van der Werf Park is the Geological Museum
(Pl. D, 4), built by J. van Lokhorst and containing numerous specimens
from the Dutch colonies, including the Junghuhn Collection from Java.
Among the other objects may be mentioned the fossils from the Maastricht
chalk-formations, a skeleton of an Irish elk (Cervus euryceros), and a
e skull of a brontotherium (from North America). The museum
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by J. van Lokhorst in 1902.
Near the Van der Werf Park are several new University Build-
ings. The University (p. 345) of Leyden still enjoys a high reput-
ation, especially as a school of medicine and natural science
(ca. 1500 students). The old University Building (Universiteit; Pl.
B, 4), in the Rapenburg, was originally a Jacobin nunnery. In the
Aula or hall is the elaborate tombstone of Jan van Adrichem, by the
Frisian sculptor Vincent Lucasz (p. 419; 1556). The staircase to
the waiting-room of the students to be examined (‘Zweetkamertye’)
is ornamented with humorous designs by Baron Victor de Stuers. The
hall of the Senate is adorned with portraits of prominent professors.
Niebuhr in his Roman History expresses his opinion that no locality
in Europe is so memorable in the history of science as this venerable
hall. The University Library (Pl. ©, 4), the oldest and one of the
richest in Holland, is established in the chapel of the old Béguinage
and contains about 190,000 vols. and 6400 MSS.
The Botanic Garden (Akademietuin or Hortus Botanicus; Pl.
B, 4), open to the public daily in summer (9-6, Sun. 10-4; ring
at the iron gate in the fore-court of the old university-building),
was founded in 1587. The collection of exotics from the E. Indies
is very fine. In the hot-houses numerous species of palms are cul-
tivated; the Victoria Regia house also is interesting. — The Ob-
servatory (Pl. B, 4; Sterrenwacht), which was built in 1866, is
situated close to the Botanic Garden.
The building Rapenburg 71, beside the entrance to the Botanic Garden,
contains the Collection of Engravings, or Pr nten-Kabinet (open daily, except
Frid. & Sun., 41-4, during the vacation 1-3).
The Natural History Museum (Pl. B, 0, 3), Rapenburg 28, is
open on week-days, 10-4 (from May to Noy. also on Sun., 12-3). The
collection is well supplied with specimens of animals from the Dutch
colonies. The cabinet of stuffed birds includes the collection of
C. J. Temminck (d. 1858), the ornithologist. The cabinet of com-
parative anatomy also is very complete. Director, Dr. F. A. Jentink.
At Papen-Gracht 25a, at the N.E. corner of the Natural History
Museum, is the Collection of Casts of Greek sculptures (adm. on ap-
plication to the porter at the Museum of Antiquities, p. 347).
In the neighbourhood are some important buildings in the Dutch
Renaissance style: the small Bibliotheca Thysiana (Pl. B,3), Rapen-
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