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crank, and will be used for raising books and otber heavy weights from 

 the bottom to the top of the building. 



Doors and their furniture. — All the doors of every part of the building 

 will have semicircular heads, and handsome trimmings and casings, of 

 the same style as the building. 



The central front and rear doors will be made of four thicknesses, of 1^ 

 inch white pine plank, laid together diagonally. The outside plank will 

 be of the best clear white pine, and the two inner layers of the best mer- 

 chantable white pine, all perfectly seasoned. The plank will be narrow, 

 and all of the even width of six inches, (6 inches.) The outer layers will 

 he set diagonally, and all beaded and cross-beaded. 



All the plank will be planed, tongued, and grooved, and will be strongly 

 screwed or rivetted together^ with white lead in the joints, and painted on 

 all sides. 



The hinges, and key plates, and knob plates, will be of heavy wrought 

 iron scroll work, bronzed in the best manner; and the doors will be grained 

 white oak, and will be varnished four coats. 



Furniture of apparatus rooms. — The room in the east connecting range 

 behind the east lecture-room, and the room on the same floor in the cam- 

 panile tower, will be shelved all around, with closets, having panelled 

 doors below, and sash doors above, glazed with good single-thickness 

 American glass. 



Furniture of library. — See plans and sections for the arrangement of 

 the cases. The cases will have sash doors, and will be shelved per direc- 

 tion of architect. The doors will be glazed with good single-thickness 

 American glass, in diamonds, or squares set diamond- wise, or will be filled 

 with wire gauze. All the pillars of the cases will be handsomely turned, 

 the doors and sashes of the best workmanship. All the mouldings in the 

 arches will be well worked, and all the capitals and bases neatly turned, 

 and ornamented with stucco ornaments, or well carved. 



On the ground floor of the library, at every alcove formed by the pillars 

 and cases, a sliding door, handsomely panelled and moulded, 2| inches 

 thick, filled with ground glass and sash in the panels, will be made to 

 slide between the longitudinal bookcases, so as to shut off the alcove 

 completely from the central aisle. These doors will be fourteen (14) in 

 number, with handsome trimmings, and will each be furnished with an 

 astragal lock, astragal sheaves and sheave way, of the best description. 



The spaces between the bookcases of the galleries and the ceflmgs of 

 the aisles will be furred up for plastering. 



Four tables, each fifteen feet (15 feet) long and five (5 feet) broad, wfll 

 be made of black walnut, to be set along the centre aisle of the library. 

 These tables will have handsome carved legs, and be covered with green 



broadcloth. , r i i 



A small desk of black walnut will be furnished for each of die alcoves. 

 The librarian's room, adjoining the library, will have handsome book- 

 cases finished in a style similar to those of the library, with glass doors, 

 &c. All the furniture of the apparatus rooms and library, except wtiere 

 otherwise specified, will be of the best clear, thoroughly seasoned white 

 pine, painted three coats with the best oil paint, grained, if so directea, to 

 resemble oak, and varnished four coats. 



Museum fuTniture.~l^\\^ museum furniture will be arranged per plans 

 and directions of the architect. All the cases will be of the designs shown 



