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The building is heated by steam through mains lying in a sub- 
way extending from the power-house, which stands near the 
railroad just west of the Southern Boulevard entrance to the 
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path connecting the Museum Building with the plaza in front of 
the railway station, leads directly to this room, affording easy 
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be amply ie: . ae tern slides; a course of public lec- 
tures on Botany and allied sciences will be commenced in nie 
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The eastern end of the basement nes several smaller 
room. 
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rooms for janitors and offices, a mechan: 
temperature room constructed with iouble walls and doors. 
- s f the building is devoted to the Museum of 
onomic Botany, and in it are now being installed specimens 
ituseating the useful products of plants, and specimens, draw- 
ings and photographs of the plants yielding them. This collec- 
tion will be arranged by products, the east hall being given over 
to drugs, the west hall to timbers and woods, and _ the two inter- 
vening halls to fibers, foods, resins, oils, sugars, starches, poisons, 
substances. 
utensils, gums, waxes an 
The second floor contains General Museum, designed to 
exhibit types of all the families and tribes of plants from the most 
ta to the most complex. The series will thus commen 
the slime-moulds niaaeee) and end with the ei 
ae (Composite), Illustration of the types is accomplished 
by prepared specimens of the plants themselves, by drawings, 
photographs, models, fruits, seeds and other parts; the preserva- 
