654 REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 



1} inch merchantable white, pine plank, mill-worked, and strongly nailed to the 

 purlines. The sheathing to be free from sap, shakes, sun-cracks, and black or rotten 

 knots. 



Partitions and centres. — There will be a stud partition between the Eegents' room 

 and the rear staircase, which will be framed up of 3 by 4 inch joists, well bridged 

 and trussed, and set twelve inches (12 in.) from centre to centre. 



All the centres for the mason work, and stone-setting, to be furnished by the 

 carpenter. 



Furring. — All the outside walls, which are not lined with brick, to be furred with 

 best 2 by 3 inch furring, set twelve inches (12 in.) from centre to centre. 



Ceilings. — All the fiat ceilings to be cross-furred with 1J by 2 inch stuff, set twelve 

 inches (12 in.) from centre to centre. 



Groined ceilings. — The ceilings of the west wing, east wing, west connecting range 

 and its cloister, museum, rooms in the front towers, and the room in the campanile 

 on the museum floor, of the principal porch, the Eegents' room, the staircases, 

 vestibules, central hall, and library, will be groined and ribbed, per plans, sections, 

 and directions of the architect. 



These ceilings will be groined as follows : 



West wing. — Divided by columns and arches into three (3) aisles, each of seven (7) 

 sections of groining, and composed of an artificial clerestory, under the roof, lighted, 

 by sky-lights, and two side aisles. The apsis will also be handsomely groined. 



West connecting range. — The gallery of art will also be divided into a central nave 

 with a clerestory, and two side aisles, each containing seven sections of groining or 

 twenty-one (21) in all. The cloister will also have seven (7) sections of groining. 



The library will be divided by pillars and arches into five aisles, each containing 

 seven sections of groining, not including the small groins between the pillars, which 

 will be groined per plan and directions of architect. 



The central hall will be in one aisle, containing sections of groining, per plans. 



The staircases will be groined per plans and directions of the architect. 



The east wing will be in a single aisle, handsomely groined. 



The Eegents' room will have one section of groining, and a groined ceiling to the 

 bay window. 



The museum will be divided by pillars into five (5) aisles longitudinally, with a 

 transept or transverse aisle, at the centre, groined in a single aisle. Each of the 

 longitudinal aisles will contain fifteen sections of groining. The traverse aisle will 

 contain two sections of groining, in front of the longitudinal aisles. 



The rooms in the front towers will have each groined ceilings. 



The front and rear staircase halls will be groined per directions of architect. 



The ceilings of the rear staircase hall will be groined per plans and directions of 

 architect, as will also be the rear vestibule of the museum under the gallery. 



The ceiling of the porch and vestibule, or stair hall of chemical lecture-room, one 

 ceiling of campanile tower, and one ceiling on the first floor of the octagonal tower, 

 will also be groined per directions of architect. 



The ceiling of the principal porch will be groined per directions of architect. 



The east cloister will be furred for a flat ceiling, with square panels and heavy 

 ribbing. 



The ceiling of the great lecture-room will also be paneled with heavy ribbing. 



All the remaining ceilings in the building, and of the towers to the top, will be 

 cross-furred. 



Bracketing. — At the intersection of all the groins, as also when they meet the 

 walls, and on all the rib lines shown on the ground plans, brackets for ribs will be 

 formed in the best manner, to receive four (4) nails to each lath. Cornices will be 

 bracketed out whenever required. All the pillars will be bracketed, as well as the 

 half and quarter pillars, on the walls. Brackets for pillars will be set on the outside 

 of all the wooden door jambs, and at all the window jambs. There will be a boss or 

 half-boss at every intersection of the ribs, all which bosses will be strongly bracketed, 

 and in general all the bracketing necessary to complete the building will be furnished 

 and put up. 



All the above furring will be made of three thicknesses of 1\ inch plank, strongly 

 nailed and spiked together, and strongly hung from the floor and roof beams, by two 

 inch plank. 



All the brackets will be secured in the strongest manner. 



Seats', $c. — The lecture-rooms and their galleries will have handsome settees of 



