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proper exhibition of the collections on hand and to provide for a 

 moderate increase. A rea occupied by duplicates which are mainly 

 in drawers, 15,000 square feet. 



Number of drawers in State Museum 970 



Kumbcr of drawers occupied by specimens belonging to 

 the State and arranged in private museum and working 

 rooms of James Hall 3, 200 



4,170 



Two-thirds of these drawers may be regarded as occupied by 

 duplicate collections. In addition to the specimens in drawers 

 there are large slabs and masses of corals which occupy an area 

 equal to 1,000 drawers. 



Besides the rooms for collections, there should be provided a 

 room for a scientific library, which for the present could be Jiniited 

 to an area of 900 or 1,000 square feet with provision for increase in 

 the future. 



Working Rooms. — For the Botanist a working-room of 18 x 25 feet 

 would suffice, with adjacent room for the collections, of 25 x 30 feet. 



For the general collections in Zoology a room for M'ork and study 

 of 20 X 25 feet, a pi-eparatory room, as a work-room, with water, 

 tanks, etc., 25 x 30 feet. 



Geology and Paleontology. — A receiving-room with space for 

 library in use of 25 x 30 feet and adjacent to a room of 30x40 feet 

 furnished with at least 1,000 drawers to contain the collections under 

 investigation and comparison. 



Also a wook-room with tables and appliances for cleaning, ticket- 

 ing and preparing specimens for study and arrangement. This 

 room should, if possible, be adjacent to a lathe-room, with machinery 

 for cutting and polishing specimens. These two rooms would 

 require an area of at least 1,200 square feet. 



For general storage of miiierals, geological specimens and fossils 

 preparatory to a distribution of the duplicates, a room of 35 x 45 

 or 40 X 50 feet, with drawers, to contain the specimens and conven- 

 iences necessary for the arranging, labeling and packing specimens. 



Students' Rooms, — Booms should be provided for students in 

 special branches of scientilic study, since the increased attention to 

 science will soon demand such conveniences. These would require 

 an area of 10,000 feet of floor space. 



If the building be fire-proof the typical collections may be arranged 

 in the same rooms, but in separate cases, with the general collections 

 of the same department. 



Considering the condition of the building now occupied by the 

 State Museum, the committee regard it as very important to secure, 

 as soon as possible, rooms for the typical collections in some fire- 

 proof building. The area required would be 30 x 40 feet. 



Director's Boom. — A small room as a private office for con- 

 ference, consultation and correspondence should be provided for the 

 Director of the Museum. 



