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the rooms are light except the basement, which was properly not 

 intended for collections, but which, on account of the necessity for 

 abridging the original plans, for reasons of econoni}', had to be devoted 

 to this purpose. Thus the ethnographic and prehistoric collection 

 there exhibited is quite inadequately lighted. Only on the southeast 

 and southwest sides may disadvantages arise from too nuich sun. The 

 partition of the third story into 22 small rooms is not altogether advan- 

 tageous, the natural sciences being crowded thereby. In addition, in 

 this department, for economical reasons, old cases were used as well 

 as new ones made after an entirely antiquated pattern, although good 

 examples were at hand nearby in the collections of the veterinary 



Fig. 119. — P*rovincial Museum, Hanover, Germany.' Plan of second story: 1, coins and seals; 2. his- 

 toric antiquities; 3, director; 4, anteroom; 5, library; 6, paleontology; 7, herbarium; 8, petrography; 

 9, mineralogy: 10, sculpture: 11, workroom. 



high school. The columns and beams of _ the second story are not 

 adapted to the dimensions of the rooms and look heavy. Whether the 

 columns could not have been omitted altogether in rooms of this lim- 

 ited width is a question well worthy of consideration. In the Brussels 

 Museum we learned of a hall 30 meters wide with only one row of 

 columns in the center (see above), a span, therefore, of 1;) meters, while 

 the rooms of this provincial museum are only 14 to 15 meters wide." 

 As fig. 118 shows, much money has been spent in the artistic 

 exterior decoration of the building, and not less for its two large halls, 



«The ground-floor hall in the Galeries d'Anatomie in the Botanical Gardens in 

 Paris also has a width of span of 14 meters without columns. 



