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A.— MrsEi'MS OF New Yokk City, Alraxy, Buffalo, and Ciiuaoo H21 



IntrodiU'tiou ■>-l 



Efforts of the American Natural History Museuins to iucivase their 



usefulness •^-■1 



I. — The (it}' of New York: 



1 . American Museum of Natural History 328 



2. ]\luseum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts ami Sciences 338 



3. Metropolitan Museum of Art .' 345 



4. Ne\v York Public Library 351 



5. Columbia University 358 



6. Iron furniture, .trlass cases, fireproof buildinu's, li^litinij; of interiors 



of buildings, distant heating 380 



Iron furniture 380 



Glass cases 384 



Fireproof buildings 385 



Lighting of interiors 387 



Distant heating 390 



II.— Albany: 



7. University of the State of New Y'ork 392 



New York State Museum 394 



New Y'ork State Lil jrary 396 



Traveling libraries division 400 



Division of exchanges 401 



Library school 402 



III.— Buffalo: 



8. Buffalo Public Lil >rary 404 



Museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 405 



Library 406 



IV. — Chicago: 



9. Field Columbian Museum 410 



10. Chicago Academy of Sciences 430 



11. Chicago Historical Society 439 



12. Art Institute of Chicago 442 



13. John Crerar Library 451 



14. Newberry Library 459 



15. Chicago Public Library 473 



16. University of Chicago 491 



Walker Museum 492 



Haskell Oriental Museum 493 



Kent Chemical Laboratory 495 



Ryerson Physical Laboratory 495 



Hull Biological laboratories 496 



Yerkes Astronomical Observatory 499 



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