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IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



Pioneer Hall — Historical relics. These will require ten cases of 500 square 

 feet, and a room of 3,000 square feet. 



Hall of History — Books; manuscripts: pictures; statuary, etc., will require 

 800 square feet. 



War Hall — Material illustrating the part taken by Iowa citizens in the 

 world's wars; will require ten case of 500 square feet, and a room of 3,000 

 square feet. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Subject 



Geology 



Palaeontology 



Botany 



Invertebrates • 



Lower Vertebrates 



Birds 



Mammals 



Natural Resources 



Archaeology 



Recent tribes 



Pioneers 



History 



War 



Total 206 



10,800 



32,700 



We now have a total of thirteen halls containing- 206 exhibition 

 cases of 10,800 square feet, on a floor space of practically 40,000 square 

 feet. This may now be conveniently, and very appropriately, divided 

 into two equal floors, or a building of two stories, 100 by 200 feet, 

 giving 20,000 square feet to each floor. Our natural history requires 

 just 20,000 square feet, and should be all on one floor. The civil 

 history requires 12,700 square feet of the other floor, which leaves 

 7,300 square feet for laboratories, administration offices, storage, 

 library, lecture room, etc., etc. 



While part of the figures given are correct, others are approximate, 

 and illustrative, yet they would need to be changed but slightly in 

 proceeding with details for a building. 



It is in bringing together the material for the exhibits where the 

 co-operative method with the schools and individuals of the state would 

 begin. They could assist in collecting desirable objects in their vicini- 

 ties, locate and report historic places, Indian village sites, prehistoric 

 mounds, etc., etc., and, ultimately, develop the work into a complete 

 natural history and ethnological survey of the state. Material thus 



