National Gallery
the principal depository of the pictures belonging to the British nation. The present building, which was intended to accommodate the Royal Academy and National Gallery, stands in Trafalgar Square, London, and was finished in 1838 at a cost of $500,000. The collection is most valuable to the student of art, and occupies more than 22 rooms. The various early and late Italian schools are extensively illustrated; there are good examples of the chief representatives of Italian art, as Raphael, Correggio, Paul Veronese.
There are a few good examples of Murillo and Velasquez and the Spanish school; and the great Dutch and Flemish painters, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Grand Cañon, Ariz. (806,400 acres), Lassen Peak, Cal. (1,280 acres), Gila Cliff Dwellings, N. M. (160 acres), and Mount Olympus, Wash. (608,480 acres), a mountain area which is the breeding ground for great numbers of elk.