636 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



All the walls aud ceilings of all the rooms in the basement story will be plastered 

 with a scratch coat, brown coat, and hard-finished coat, laid on true and even, and 

 finished in the best manner. 



All the walls and ceilings of the professors' rooms, laboratories, and rooms in the 

 towers, to their tops, except such as are groined, will be plastered in a similar man- 

 ner, with three coats. 



All the canopies and partitions in lecture-rooms to be plastered three coats, as above 

 described. 



All the remaining htdls and apartments in the whole building, including library, 

 museum, the two lecture-rooms, the two galleries of art, the great central hall and 

 its vestibules, the Eegents' room, the front and rear stair halls and the rooms in the 

 two central front towers, the octagonal and campanile towers below the line of the 

 roof of the main building, will be plastered throughout with two coats, a scratch 

 coat and a stucco-finished brown coat, well hand floated, laid on in the most perfect, 

 true, and even manner. The brown coat will be laid off in courses and colored to 

 represent stone. 



Ornamental Plastering. — All the ceilings of the museum, library, galleries of arts, 

 and the rooms connected with them, will be groined and ribbed in the best manner, 

 according to the plans and directions of the architect. The ribs will be run at the 

 intersection of all the groins, and across the ceilings between the groins, against the 

 walls over the windows, and in all places which the architect shall direct ; all the red 

 lines on the plans being ribs. The ribs shall be of rich Norman section, and of good 

 proportion, varying from 7 by 9 to 11 by 13 inches in the ceilings, and of larger 

 dimensions in the arches over the columns dividing the aisles. In the gallery of art, 

 heavy ribs, twenty inches wide, shall be run under the arches supporting the clere- 

 story. 



At the intersection of all the ribs, and at the crown of all the ribs not intersected 

 by others, bosses of foliage, of the best Norman design, which will be furnished by 

 the architect, and of the richest character, well relieved from the grounds, will be 

 placed. 



The shafts of the columns, of all the apartments and halls, which shall be of the 

 richest character, composed of clusters of engaged columns in rebates, and made 

 according to the plans of the architect, will be run with gaged mortar, in the best, 

 truest, and most workmanlike manner ; and all the separate columns of each clustered 

 shaft shall have moulded plinths, and bases, and foliage Norman caps, of such design 

 as architect shall furnish, and put up and modelled according to his directions. 



Around all the windows a handsome moulded Norman jamb and arch, whose 

 section shall be a double rebate, with two engaged columns, shall be run. All the 

 columns of the above to have plinths, and bases, and foliage Norman caps ; and a 

 label mould, resting on two foliage corbels, will be run around the arch of each 

 window ; and all of the above work shall be executed according to the plans and 

 directions of the architect. 



Around all the doors, Norman jambs and arches, of the same section as those of 

 the windows, but with more mouldings, where directed, shall be run. In the arches 

 the mouldings will be ornamented with chevrons, cable moulds, and foliage bands, 

 according to the directions of the architect. 



The main central hall, the entrance porch, the rooms in the central front towers, 

 the Regents' room, the rooms and stair wells in the octagonal and campanile towers, 

 and the ceilings of the principal staircase, halls, and vestibules, and vestibule and 

 porch ceilings of the east wing, together with the room over the central front and 

 rear stair halls, and the ceilings of both of the wings, will be also groined and ribbed 

 in the best manner, and finished, in every respect, as above described for the museum, 

 &c. All the doors and windows will be finished as above described. 



The ceilings of both the cloisters will be gruined in a similar manner. 



All the columns, &c, in all the above rooms, will be finished as above described; 

 and there will be in all the rooms of the whole building clustered columns in tho 

 centre of the piers between the windows, with plinths, bases, and foliage caps. 



The Eegents' room will be finished all around with clustered columns and arches, 

 dividing the walls into panels above the wainscoating. All the arches over these 

 columns, and those of the triple-arched opening between the room and the bay win- 

 dow, will be ornamented with zigzag, cable, and other Norman mouldings, a* may 

 be directed by the architect. All the doors and windows of all the above rooms to 

 have mouldings, pillars, &c, as above described for the museum, &c. 



The main ceilings of the principal lecture-room, and the gallery ceilings of the 

 principal lecture-room, and of that in the east wing, will be level, and will be heavily 



