and the installation of overhead lighting in the main exhibition 

 hall. The result is a most convenient arrangement of space, 

 which could hardly be improved in a building primarily de- 

 signed for museum purposes. Plans were originally made for 

 fire-proof construction in remodelling the building but the 

 necessary funds were not available and consolation must be 

 sought in the fact that the fire protection in the College was 

 no better and that the new building is well isolated. 



Wide door ways lead from the portico to the entrance hall, 

 where turnstiles are to be placed to record the number of visitors. 

 Facing the entrance and above the openings leading to the 

 central exhibition hall is a white marble tablet commemorating 

 the donor of the building. On the side wall is placed the switch- 

 board controlling the lights and a telephone which is one of a 

 ten station system communicating with all parts of the building. 



From the entrance hall broad corridors lead to the office of 

 the director in the south-east corner of the building and to the 

 small classroom on the north, used by the department of biology 

 and geology of the College of Charleston. Smaller offices ad- 

 jacent to the entrance hall also open on the corridors and broad 

 stairways rise to the galleries. Two toilets are placed under 

 the stairs. 



The walls of entrance hall and corridors are painted a pale 

 buff and the trim a dull black. These colors will be used not 

 only in the main exhibition hall and galleries but in finishing 

 the cases as well. The buff is a favorable background for 

 specimens and can be matched in a paper stock for labels which 

 will not fade. The necessity of using many old cases requires 

 that they be painted and black seems to form the most pleasing 

 exterior color. 



The main exhibition hall, 146 feet long by 90 feet wide, oc- 

 cupies the center of the building and is surrounded on front and 



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