FIFTH FLOOR 



The fifth floor is occupied by the Administrative Offices, 

 the Offices and Laboratories of the Scientific Departments 

 and the Library, which contains more than 70,000 volumes 

 on natural history, anthropology and travel. 



There are in the Library more than 15,000 volumes in 

 zoology; 3,500 volumes in entomology; 2,000 volumes in 

 conchology; 2,500 volumes in anthropology, including 

 many of the older works relating to the North American 

 Indian; 3,500 volumes in geology, enriched by the library 

 of the late Professor Jules Marcou; a collection of 5,000 

 volumes in palaeontology, in the main composed of the Os- 

 born Library of Vertebrate Palaeontology, and an unusually 

 complete collection of more than 25,000 volumes of natu- 

 ral science periodicals. 



The Reading Room of the Library is open free daily, with 

 the exception of Sundays and holidays, from 9 A.M. to 

 5 P.M., to all who may wish to consult the books. 



In addition to the exhibits which the Museum displays, 

 it maintains a Department of Public Education which co- 

 operates with the Board of Education of the City in a most 

 comprehensive manner, by supplying to the schools lan- 



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