CHAPTER V. 

 THE LIBRARY. 



THE library which was annexed to the Museum 

 at the time of the new organization, was placed 

 in the last room of the building ; the space it 

 occupied having become necessary for the dis- 

 play of the collections, and being too confined 

 for the proper arrangement of the books, we 

 have already expressed in the first part of this 

 work a wish that it might be transported to the 

 the large edifice in the centre of the menagerie, 

 which is conveniently situated in the neighbour- 

 hood of the amphitheatre, where the courses 

 are delivered. An unexpected misfortune, the 

 loss of M. Van Spaendonck, has obviated the ne- 

 cessity of this measure, by leaving at the dispo- 

 sition of the administration the lodgings he occu- 

 pied, where it is now proposed to place the 

 library. 



W^orks upon natural history being alone es- 

 sential to the library of the Museum, it was to 



