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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



tories after the Wiuult pattern. Rsychology is diligently fostered in 

 the universities of the United States even more than in Germany, and 

 Columbia University ranks among the tirst in this respect. Quite 

 recently ,). D. Rockefeller gave $100,000 primarily for the better 

 endowment of this chair. The third story contains seven other rooms 

 for psychology, the remainder for l)otany. The fourth flour is devoted 

 to zoology. Each of these sections has its museum for instruction, its 

 reference library, its laboratories and lecture rooms (the large one for 

 250 persons), and the necessary anterooms. This was not carried out 

 according to a fixed plan, but no pains have ))een spared to adapt every 

 detail to its special objects and to work each out as completely as pos- 



5EAUNAR R00A\S'SEC0,MD FlOOC' east and west wings. 



Fk;. 20. — Cohinibia University. Plan of seminar rooms sliowii in liijnre 19. A, section 

 t hrniitfh \ B; B, section througli (' I), 



sihlc. Toward this object advantage has been taken of the experience 

 not only of America but also of Europe. The Prussian university 

 plans at the Chicago World's Fair, the purchase of which was men- 

 tioned on a })revious page, were of special value in this connection. 

 The buildings, which are situated entirely on the plateau, have four 

 stories above the ground floor; those erected on its edge have six on 

 the outer side. The entire furnishings, including the cases containing 

 the collections, the doors, and the window frames, are of wood; in 

 other respects the construction is quite fireproof. The floors of the 

 corridors, the laboratories, and the stairs are partly of marble, partly 

 of other stones, marble mo.saic. or asphalt; the floors of the lecture 

 rooms, otfices, etc., are of fireproof material, with parquetr}^ of pine 



