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plants of the Columbia herbarium, while between the east wall 
and the other row of pillars range the forty-five cases containing 
the Garden herbarium, with which is incorporated, though readily 
separable, the Columbia cryptogams and gymnosperms, thus 
making possible a complete arrangement of the orders and fami- 
lies from the lowest to the most highly organized forms of plant 
7 admirable relation between the room itself and the cases 
may easily be realized b 
ately against the wall or pillar 
— 0 EFT] at any 
I 
point. 
n addition to the herba- 
e is le 
E-E4 [| F_F-J | table accommodation, a mat- 
ter of the first importance in 
os ome SS connection with herbarium 
t of 
; the tables is also shown on 
ee EF] the diagram. At the north- 
L | ern end of the room, facing 
the three large windows stand 
—— [| — a | three oa tables, each four 
feet wide and eight feet long 
R th h the middle 
Fic. 7.—Floor plan of main herbarium angmng roug eee 
can: oom beneath the sky 
ights and between the two 
rows of pillars, stand a series of ee ables, some four, some six 
ee others eight feet in length, and all within reasonable distance 
both series of herbarium cases. The walls of the room are 
oe apted to elastic arrangement of stationary or book cases, 
and small ncbien for ae prosecution of special work. At conve- 
nient points there are such duplicate books as are constantly 
