XIX. 



THE MCGRAW BUILDING, THE MUSEUM, AND LIBRARY. 



Between White Hall and Morrill Hall stands the 

 McGraw Building, so named in honor of John McGraw, 

 who erected the building at a cost of over $120,000 

 and gave the same to the University. The material 

 is the same as that of the adjoining buildings, and 

 while differing in design, it is so constructed as to com- 

 plete the symmetry of the row. The building is con- 

 structed with a main central portion, with north and 

 south wings, the entire length of the building being two 

 hundred and twenty feet, and its width sixty feet. A 

 tower twenty feet square and one hundred and thirty 

 feet high adjoins it on the west. 



The middle entrance on the east side conducts the 

 visitor by means of a double winding staircase to the 

 second floor, which contains the main museum of the 

 University. Just at the foot of these stairs are two im- 

 mense specimens of ore, the larger, a very pure ore of 

 copper, weighing several tons. The museum is arranged 

 in galleries occupying the space of three floors, with a 

 large rectangular open space in the middle. On enter- 

 ing the museum the first object to strike the attention 

 is a huge plaster cast of a megatherium. On the wall 

 over the entrance is a cast of a plesiosaurus. In the 

 same group are casts and models of many other old 

 monsters, ' 'whose names are as ugly as their skeletons. ' ' 



