I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

Mrs. Coolidge spent more time in her bedroom among her doll collection.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

There are many other places and objects worth seeing, for example a notable number of churches and monasteries, a few remarkable 17th-and 18th-century buildings in the particular Baroque style typical of the region, a collection of statues and monuments, park areas, cemeteries, among others.

( Isaiah was the most popular prophet among the Dead Sea collection: 21 copies of the scroll were found in Qumran.

A high proportion of the collection comes from tombs or contexts associated with the cult of the dead, and it is these pieces, in particular the mummies, that remain among the most eagerly sought after exhibits by visitors to the Museum.

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

The lower area of data collection is the census tract, with approximately 300 households, and information is collected on age, condition of the home, gender, income, among others.

Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

His attitude toward madrigals was somewhat enigmatic: whereas in the preface to his collection of Canticum canticorum ( Song of Songs ) motets ( 1584 ) he renounced the setting of profane texts, only two years later he was back in print with Book II of his secular madrigals ( some of these being among the finest compositions in the medium ).

The Farm House Museum is a unique on-campus educational resource providing a changing environment of exhibitions among the historical permanent collection objects that are on display.

Mácha also authored a collection of autobiographical sketches titled Pictures From My Life, the 1835 – 36 novel Cikáni ( Gypsies ), and several individual poems, as well as a journal in which, among other things, he detailed his sexual encounters with Šomková.

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

Important works from the 100s include the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends ; and the letters of the orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius.

The collection of Moderna Museet holds key pieces of, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint Phalle, Salvador Dalí, Carolee Schneemann, Henri Matisse och Robert Rauschenberg

* 1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat ( 113 g ) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves ( among them is " Murph the surf ") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

These expeditions, among others, produced numerous, well-documented objects now in the museum's collection.

Reference counting is also among the simplest forms of garbage collection to implement.

In computer science, a search algorithm is an algorithm for finding an item with specified properties among a collection of items.

There are references to a " ten percent collection fee " to cover expenses when he extracts large sums from victims, the remainder being returned to the owners, given to charity, shared among Templar's colleagues, or some combination of those possibilities.

Although the Zeitschrift was never revived, the Institute nevertheless published a series of important sociological books, including a collection of essays entitled Sociologica ( 1955 ), the Gruppenexperiment ( 1955 ), a study of work satisfaction among workers in Mannesmann called Betriebsklima and the Soziologische Exkurse, a textbook-like anthology intended as an introductory work about the discipline.

The holdings of the collection of manuscripts and music includes, among other things, the Gothic Bible manuscript Codex Argenteus.

The collection also boasts extensive histories of colonial Victoria and the Colony of Vancouver Island among other documents.

The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a silver iconostasis.

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

File: Sleeping Reindeer 4512630872 d31dcb1207 o. jpg | Room 3-Swimming Reindeer carving, France, Ice-Age 13, 000 years ( both one of the world's oldest works of art, as well as the oldest work of art in the British Museum's collection )

The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

Some points of interest are the Tropical House, the Cactus House, the Canary House and the Orchid House, which hosts one of the world's biggest collection of orchids, and free-flying birds and butterflies.

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge.

* Archduke Rainer Papyri — One of the world's largest collection of papyri ( about 180, 000 objects ) in the Austrian National Library.

The director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants.

In summer 2010, the world's first permanent airport library opened alongside the museum, providing passengers access to a collection of 1, 200 books ( translated into 29 languages ) by Dutch authors or on subjects relating to the country ’ s history and culture.

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kropelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo.

The museum's collection is the world's largest, including more than 700 original Rockwell paintings, drawings, and studies.

* Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.

The PSTN is the world's collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concentration of the world's public IP-based packet-switched networks.

The National Palace Museum in Taipei now boasts a truly international collection while housing one of the world's largest collections of artifacts from ancient China.

As such, there were times when the café's walls were littered with a collection of artworks, that today would make the curators of the world's greatest museums drool with envy.

In 1977, Honor Place was founded, a collection of many of the world's largest celebrity hand impressions.

With Anderson's eventual formation of the Atlantic Richfield Company, and as his personal art collection quickly overflowed out of his New Mexico ranch and other homes, ARCO soon held the unique distinction of possessing the world's largest corporate Art Collection, under the critical eye and sharp direction of Bayer as Arco's Design Consultant.

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the Tiffany Chapel he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

* Fully illustrated online catalogue of world's largest collection of astrolabes