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The Work Rooms for the assistants of the Museum, and the Storage 
Rooms, which are also intended as work rooms of their special subjects, 
are distributed as follows, in addition to a large Receiving Room and a 
general workshop. 
The Alcoholic Collections stored in the basement occupy : — 
Four Rooms devoted to Fishes. 
Two Rooms for Fishes and Reptiles. 
One Room for Birds and Mammals. 
One Room for Mollusca. 
One Room for Crustacea. 
One Room for the other Invertebrates. 
The Entomological Department is to occupy eventually four gallery 
rooms of the first story. 
The Work Rooms and Storage Rooms of the fifth story are filled by 
collections occupying : — 
Five Rooms devoted to Birds and Mammals; three for skins and 
eggs, and two for skeletons. 
One Room for Crustacea. 
One Room for Mollusca. 
One Room for Fish and Reptile Skeletons. 
One Room for the Collection of dry Invertebrates (Corals, Echi- 
noderms, Sponges, etc.). 
Two Rooms for Fossil Vertebrates exclusive of Fishes. 
The remaining Paleontological Collections are crowded into four Work 
and Storage Rooms. 
Two Work Rooms for the Geological and Lithological Department. 
Four Rooms are devoted to the Library of the Museum, and one Room 
for the office of the Curator. 
There are also: — 
A large general Lecture Room. < 
Three Laboratories for Students in Biology. 
Three Laboratories for Students in Geology and Paleontology, with 
two smaller private rooms for the Instructors. 
With the Biological Laboratories will be connected also a large 
Room for an Aquarium for both fresh-water and marine animals, and 
another room for a Vivarium, both of which are in the basement of the 
building. 
This will give us, in all, seventeen rooms devoted to the ex- 
hibition of collections for the public; ten work and storage rooms 
in the basement, for the Alcoholic Collections ; thirteen work and 
storage rooms for the dry Zodlogical Collections; eight similar 
