JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. I, FeBRuARY, 1900, No. 2. 
THE LIBRARY. 
_ The library, which is in the central portion of the third floor 
of the museum building, consists of a large reading room or 
rotunda under the dome, of a stack or book room to the rear in 
the square — wing arid two small store rooms for pamphlets 
and duplica 
The a room is admirably lighted by three west, four north 
and three east windows, and by a long central skylight. The 
reading room is lighted both from the windows in the dome and 
from the stack room, and is furnished with chairs and large oak 
tables. 
The book stacks are forty in number, arranged along both sides 
of the book room. They are constructed of steel plate of one- 
tenth inch in thickness, are double-fronted, made in sections, 
four feet long, two feet deep and six and a half feet high, with 
about three inches from the floor. They are painted a dark olive-- 
green, in japanned finish. Each stack is provided with five 
movable shelves with adjustable space or holes on the inside of 
the cases, about one inch apart, through which small bolts are 
thrust to catch the shelves. For the folios there are four large 
metallic double-fronted cases, three feet high with a table top 
three and a half feet, in the center of the stack room. 
shelves and the other arranged with a system of three roller 
shelves for the easier handling of the heavier folios. These cases, 
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