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toa botanic garden, which is designed to combine ornament with sci- 
entific utility. ‘The remainder of the enclosure is laid out and plant- 
ed with a view to picturesque embellishment, and with particular ref- 
erence to the favorable display of the venerable remains of antiquity 
which adorn and consecrate the ground. . 
The front of the museum extends one hundred and two feet, and 
was designed by Wm. Wilkins, Esq. R.A. In the centre is a por- 
tico of four Grecian Doric columns, (three feet six inches in diameter 
and twenty one feet six inches high,) extending thirty five feet and 
projecting ten feet, with bold steps all round it. The space on each 
side of the portico, which is terminated by an antae pilaster, has three 
windows, ornamented by suitable architraves. A bold massive Gre- 
cian pediment is supported by the columns, and the entablature con- 
tinues the whole length of the front, and returns round the ends of 
this building, which is about twenty four feet wide. ‘These ends 
have an antae pilaster at each angle, supporting a massive architec- 
tural screen to the roof, imitated from the choragic monument of 
Thrasyllus at Athens. The whole of this building is faced with 
Hackness stone, from the quarries of Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., 
the gift of the munificent proprietor, and also the sides of the back 
ldings which are lower than the front. oe 
From the portico, the entrance into the building is by spacious 
folding doors, with a light over them, resembling that over the door 
of the Pantheon at Rome. i 
The internal arrangements were principally founded on a design 
made by Mr. Sharp in 1825, and subsequently much enlarged and 
m™proved. 'The hall is twenty nine feet six inches by eighteen feet 
ax inches. The floor is formed of scagliola plaster, by Mr. Ellison, 
IN Imitation of porphyry. The walls resemble stone; and the ceil- 
ing being divided into bold panels, gives the whole a very massive 
and suitable effect. On the right of the hall is the library, thirty one 
leet nine inche by eighteen feet six inches: here the books and mis- 
Cellaneous antiquities belonging to the society are deposited. A door 
on the left of the library leads to the staircase and council-room. Di- 
rectly Opposite the front door, corresponding folding doors lead into 
© theatre or lecture-room, thirty five feet by forty four feet. ‘This 
beautiful room is ornamented by six Corinthian columns and four pi- 
Fa. Supporting beams enriched by guilloche ornaments, dividing 
© ceiling into four principal compartments, in each of which are 
“0 Tows of deep caisons: those of the two middle divisions are fill- 
Vou. XXI—No, 1. 
