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third floor : a series of movable wire tables for living plants 

 have been built for use in the physiological laborator 

 means of funds generously contributed : . W. E. Dodge, 



:: oak tabic ig 24 microscopes in glass boxes for 



- .ruction have been placed in the west wing of the 



-tematic museum on the second floe: eral temporary 



wooden cases for stacking duplicate and unstudied museum 

 and herbarium specimens have been built for the basement, 

 and others for the storeroom on the third floor. 



The exhibition cases in the museum halls of both the first 

 and second floors have been filled with specimens, and the 

 public has had access to these floors every day since the com- 

 pletion of the building, it having beer, found unnecr^Ar 

 close the museum at any time for either cleaning or repairs : 

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accomplished by fi e janitors ; the elevator has been run at 

 times when its use seemed desirable, but it has not been nec- 

 essary to keep it in constant operation, as the visiting public, 

 having only access to the first and second floors, have only 

 to mount two flights of stairs. Access to the building has 

 '::::. restricted to visitors to one of the basement doors 

 pending the building of the paths and drive s to the front 

 entrance : this course has been necessary in order to avoid the 

 tracking of mud into the museum halls. The corps of engi- 

 :: r.c Park Department engaged in the building of 

 roads have been accommodated with a work room in the base- 

 ment of the eastern ing of the building. Other rooms in this 

 : -ement wing are -ed as a label shop and a carpenter shop ; 

 nther rooms in the basement are utilized as storerooms, 

 and one main basement hall has been temporari I u s e d a - a 

 reparation room for museum and herbarium material. The 

 museum c ;n the first and sreond floors, and the herba- 



rium cases in the herbarium room in the east end of the third 

 floor have hitherto proven sufficient to accommodate the col- 

 lecti >. but the growth of the latter has been so rapid that 

 additional cases for all these rooms will probably need to be 

 sup plied during the coming vear. The number of students 



