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Not until ISIM) did the Institiito booin tlie t'oundint,^ of a museum. 

 The cost of building and furnisliing is borne by the city. Though 

 not quite as large as the Natural History Museum in New York, it is 

 planned on a great scale. The building ground is at the southwestern 

 end of Brooklyn, on Prospect Ilill, 17;") feet in height, in an extensive 

 partly-wild park of the same name, where 12 acres of land (750 l>y 725 

 feet) are resei'ved by the city for the museum. The collections com- 

 prise the arts and sciences. It is proposed to construct a scpiare 

 building in the renaissance style, Avith cupolas, facing almost exactly 



Fui. 7.— Brooklyn Ir.stitutt' of Arts and Sciences. Plan of first floor of the projectrd buildinf: 



north and south. Each side will be 5()0 feet long, thus occupying an 

 area of 7 aci'cs, or more, than twice the size of the old market in Dres- 



tains 35 minerals, 20 plants, 13 fossils, 3 worms, 3 echinoderms, 2 crabs, 90 insects, 

 10 mollusks, 2 fishes, 3 reptiles, 3 birds, and 2 mammals — altogether 1S6 specimens, 

 and costs $20 in France. Ftirther, as an example of how things are demonstrated to 

 the children, to represent the leather industry there is shown a piece of animal hide, 

 the different substances for tanning and dyeing, and also the bristles used in the 

 manufacture of brushes. Or else, on a map of France, the wine districts are desig- 

 nated by small wine bottles, the coal districts by fragments of coal, the distribution 

 of navigation 1)y miniature metal shijjs, that of glass manufactures by little pieces of 

 glass, etc. Nine hundred pictures and tableaus are lumg up in succession. School 

 teachers can also use the material of the collection in lectures to tlieir pM])ils. 



