The New Laboratory. 



The material selected was reinforced concrete. The contract 

 was given to Lucas Brothers, and the architect was J. L. Young. 

 The plans adopted were those of the Director, which were made 

 several years before in connection with those of the Library and 

 Papuan Hall. All of these had in view stone as a building 

 material, with steel and concrete flooring, that, externally at 

 least, they might conform to the buildings already finished. 

 With the change of material the plans had to be altered with 

 the changed conditions, and the alteration most to be regretted 

 was the necessary change of floor level in the upper stories 

 which do not conform to the levels of the galleries in Hawaiian 

 Hall, to which the new structure is attached by concrete 

 bridges at a distance of thirty feet. Those actively engaged 

 in the construction of the building: W. von Wagner, foreman, 

 whose untiring industry pushed forward as much as possible 

 a work which was tedious in the extreme. For the architect, 

 Mr. Albert J. Greene attended to the engineering matters of 

 lining and leveling. The Hawaiian Electric Company put in 

 the interior telephones and the electric wiring. The plumb- 

 ing was done by E. W. Quinn, and the painting by S. Stephen- 

 son. The Honolulu Iron Works furnished the overhead trolley 

 and hoists. 



The accompanying views and plans will, it is hoped, make 

 the following general description intelligible. The building is 

 80X66 feet : each floor has a hall 10 feet wide extending its length. 

 On the ground floor, which is at the level of that of Hawaiian 

 Hall and consequently slightly below the surface of the rising 



ground at the back of the Museum site, on the left of the entrance 



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