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for plant embryology, plant morphology, plant physiology, 
plant chemistry and photography, together with a physolenicl 
da: oom and a photographic dark room. East of the 
Library are the laboratories for taxonom The equipment of 
all these laboratories with tables, cases aad chairs is in place, 
and the instrumental equipment is being received. The herbar- 
ium occupies the east wing of this floor, together with two smaller 
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ranged along the west side of this hall, and that of the garden 
along the east side, the total number of mounted specimens con- 
tained in the two collections being over 600,000; over 50,000 
additional specimens, not yet mounted, are in storage, but work 
in arranging and mounting them is going forward rapidly ; it is 
hoped that all will be available for study during the present year. 
main Museum halls are open to visitors from nine o’clock 
in the morning to five in the afternoon on every day of the week ; 
access to the third floor may be obtained by permission ; students 
properly prepared to prosecute investigations are afforded room 
and guidance i in the laboratories, library and herbarium, but it it is 
than through the system of public lectures already referred to 
In.locating the Museum Building attenticn has been paid to its 
possible future enlargement by wings cabs back from the 
part now constructed, permitting a doubling of its present size 
without waren 2 with roads, paths or es A photo- 
graph from the architect's design, showing this conception, was 
printed in Bulletin No. 3. e photograph from which the 
print accompanying this account was engraved was taken Novem- 
ber 22, 1899, from a point about half-way between the building 
and the ede station. It will be seen from this that much 
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to the front central portico the yeaa of the fountain designed 
to occupy the space within the outer curved retaining: wall of the 
front approach, and of a parapet il wall around the terrace 
which surrounds the building, which is now being brought to a 
