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cations, which make part of the same, on the journal of the committee. 

 It ii^'liides a portion but not the whole of the furniture; the portion inclu- 

 ded- however, being the most expensive part of it, and comprehending the 

 she-ving cases, desks, drawers, and tables, in the laboratory and apparatus 

 roon:) ; the book-cases, large tables and alcove desks, in the library; the glass 

 cases in the museum; the seats hi the lecture rooms; the elevators, v/ith 

 sheaves and counter- v^'-eights; water closets, completely fitted up; rain- 

 water cisterns; and the chairs and table in the Regents' room. Fhies 

 for heating and ventilation are provided for, but the expense of heating 

 and lighting is not included. Cesspools are included, but no provisions 

 fer draining, according to the municipal regulations of the city. 



The foundation walls, under the main central towers, are twelve feet 

 thick at bottom, gradually diminishing to five and a half feet at the surface 

 of the ground, and are sunk eight feet deep. The foundations of the rear 

 central tower, excavated to the same depth, are ten feet, diminishing to 

 five feet; of the campanile and octagonal towers also ten feet, diminishing 

 to five and six feet deep. The thickness of the walls of the main build- 

 ing, above the water-table, is two feet and a half in the first story, and 

 two feet in the second, exclusive of buttresses, corbel-courses, and other 

 similar external projections, and exclusive, also, of an internal lining wall 

 of brick, of the thickness of a single brick, tied at intervals to the wall, 

 and intended to plaster to. The "walls of the wings are two feet thick. 

 The central towers are three feet and a half thick in the first story, dimin- 

 ishing to two feet in the highest story. 



Inverted arches, of hard brick, are turned under all the openings of the 

 foundation. Groined arches are turned under the central towers, the cam- 

 panile, the octagonal tower, and the tower of the west wing. 



The ashlar facing of the building is to be laid in courses from ten to 

 fifteen inches in height, with a bed of nine inches, and the joints to be 

 nowhere over three-eighths of an inch. 



The basements, to contain the heating furnaces, also the janitors' rooms 

 and the room to receive Smithson's personal effects, are fire-proofed. A 

 pine floor, covered two inches thick with cement, is carried under the roofs 

 of the whole building. The floors, where they are not fire-proofed, have 

 a deafening of lime, clay, and sand. 



The central stair-cases, front and rear, are to be of stone to the museum 

 floor. The floor of the gallery of art, embracing the west wing and its 

 connecting range, of the laboratory, including the east wing and part of 

 its connecting range, of the central hall and the vestibules, also the floors of 

 the basement under the laboratory, imder die central towers, under the 

 campanile and other towers, together with the cloisters, are to be flagged 

 with North river flagging. The floor of the principal lecture-room will also- 

 be fl.agged with flags, supported on brick cross-walls. The floors of the 

 library and museum are to be of pine; and it is not proposed that either of 

 these two rooms should be artificially lighted. 



The laboratory wing is to be roofed with slate — the rest of the building, 

 as the contract now stands, with sheet tin; but the committee propose to 

 roof the main building and west wing with slate, parang the difference. 



It was made a condition of the contract that the erection of the building 

 should occupy a period of five years from its date, that term ending on the 

 19th of March, 1852. It was also agreed tliat the building should be 

 erected in such proportions, during each year, as the committee might 



