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feet, located in the western part of the 

 grounds near the Bedford Park station of 

 the Harlem division of the New York Cen- 

 tral railroad . The building has a basement 

 floor and three stories with a total floor 

 area of nearly two acres, and window open- 

 ing to half this amount, thus securing a 



of from one hundred to five hundred. Ad- 

 joining the lecture hall are two large exhi- 

 bition halls which are designed for horticul- 

 tural shows and other temporary displays. 

 The first floor of the museum is devoted 

 to the display of economic plants and their 

 useful products. Glass fronted cases with 



Tbe Museum Building — New York Botanical Garden. 



good illumination, so highly desirable in a 

 museum. A lecture theater occupies the 

 basement floor of the western end, offering 

 seating capacity for seven hundred hearers 

 and furnished with all necessary appliances 

 for the illustration of lectures. During the 

 spring and autumn, courses of popular lec- 

 tures are given on Saturday afternoons 

 which have already drawn an attendance 



movable and flying shelving are arranged 

 in alcoves opening on the windows. Only 

 about one-third of the case equipment of 

 the building has as yet been set up. Dried 

 specimens on herbarium sheets, conserved 

 material in tubes, and jars, dry, and in form- 

 alin, and drawings, illustrate the method of 

 preparation and appearance of the deriva- 

 tives. It is of course utterly impossible 



