572 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



the Natural History Museum is the third of ttie building, since the 

 three ])clow that (the basement, ground floor, and second floor) 

 belong to the new Technical School, which is entirely separated 

 from it and has its own entrance. The lower floor of the Natural 

 History Museum (the third in the new wing) is, however, on a level 

 with the ground floor of the old nniseum, with which it makes 

 a complete whole (flg. 108). The height of the new wing is 100 feet 

 above the street level. It is hard stone, constructed by E. W. Mount- 

 ford, in the ''modern classic style of the nineteenth century;''' it is 206 

 feet long and 177 feet wide, and has an area of 8,000 sc^uare yards. 

 Between the seven windows of the lower museum stor}^ on the rounded 

 portion are pairs of Ionic columns 83 feet high. Also, high up above 

 the upper story of the nmseum are additional rooms for the Technical 

 School, namely, a chemical laboratory and an observator3^ The 

 school has 1,300 students. The entire new building cost $675,000, of 

 which $375,000 falls upon the museum. The new large rooms are com- 

 pleted (flgs. 100 and 107), and, being excellently lighted and spacious, 

 the museum will, next to that of London, l)e the most comprehensive, 

 and in all respects one of the l)est in (xreat Britain.'^ The lighting of 

 the gallery on both sides, 36 feet wide, is faultless, and the only method 

 suitable for a natural-history museum, since in that way wall cases 

 placed opposite the light are avoided. The upper story could not be 

 lighted in this manner, but it was necessary to depend upon a skylight, 

 as the new wing had to correspond constructively with the exterior of 

 the old museum. Here, likewise, the adaptability of the interior 

 has been subordinated to exterior beaut3^ The skylight is not by any 

 means bad, though side light would have been better. Besides, the 

 handling of a large skjdight is somewhat inconvenient, and it can 



" In the Report of the Director of Museums relative to the Rearrangements of, and 

 the Cases for, the Collections in the Free Public Museums (Liverpool, 1901, 8 vo., 

 10 i>i>. ), Prof. II. O. F(jrbes developes the fundamental features of his plan of instal- 

 lation. The future collections will consist of: I. The Aquarium; II. The Mayer 

 Museum, that is subdivided into three great ethnographical divisions, in the Cauca- 

 sian (white), the Mongolian (yellow), and the Melanic (black) races; III. The Lord 

 Derby Museum, the latter being sulxlivided as follows: Types of the Principal Groups 

 and Subdivisions of the Animal Kingdom, from mankind down to unicellular forms. 

 This biological collection 1 )egins with an introductory series of animals, ])lants, models, 

 and drawings, ilhistrating the distinction between inorganic and organic ol>jects, 

 between plants and animals, as well as the general formation and the physiology 

 of animals. Associated with the living forms will be the fossil ones, so that by study- 

 mg them together the development from the first to the last may be observed. Then 

 will follow the mineralogical and the geological collections. Beyond this a represen- 

 tation of the geographic distribution of animals and plants, as well as of protective 

 mimicry, variation of S])ecies, and other fundamental principles of biology. Finally, 

 a collection of objects by countries not confined to too narrow geographical boun- 

 daries, but including the adjacent waters, will aim to be practically complete. 

 Botaiiy will be i^ut in advance of everything else in a British collection, but typical 

 examples of all natural orders will also be given. 



