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partition which in the part adjoining the engine room is provided 

 with high fixed transom lights of heavy wired glass. Beginning at 

 the east, the rooms consist of a paint shop measuring 32 feet by 47 

 feet, a cabinet shop, 30 feet 6 inches by TO feet 10 inches, a carpenter 

 machine shop, 33 feet 6 inches by 55 feet, and a metal shop, 33 feet 

 6 inches by 16 feet 7 inches. To permit of the moving of large 

 pieces of furniture, the partitions separating these rooms have been 

 provided with door openings 8 feet wide by 10 feet high, which is 

 also the size of the opening into the corridor in front of the boiler 

 room. 



These shops are excellently well equipped and contain facilities 

 for producing the highest grade of cabinet construction as well as for 

 such other kinds of work as can be done most advantageously by the 

 Museum force. The outfit of woodworking machinery, all of which 

 is operated by individual electric motors, thus obviating the use of 

 belts, includes a drill press, saw bench, variety molder, lathe, swing 

 cut-off saw, band saw, mortise machine, tenon machine, surface planer, 

 and oil stone and edge tool grinder. 



Adjoining the toilet and locker room in the southwest comer of 

 the wing is a shower bath and dressing room. 



West wing. — The entire central part of this wing is occupied by 

 the large compartment for the storage of alcoholic specimens, the 

 southern half of which is several feet longer than the northern, ow- 

 ing to an offset in its eastern wall. On the northern and southern 

 sides of the wing, separated from the compartment by 10-foot cor- 

 ridors enclosed and provided with steel doors at their outer ends, 

 are two series of rooms used as laboratories for the subjects repre- 

 sented by the collections for which these storage quarters were 

 erected. The first of these series, measuring 19 feet 3 inches wide 

 in the clear and subdivided into three laboratory rooms for fishes, 

 faces the west court and extends a distance of five units from the 

 men's toilet and locker rooms in the northeast corner of the wing. 

 It is followed on the west by a large open space, in which is located 

 the machinery for operating the freight elevator on this side of the 

 building. The other series occupies eight units along the south front, 

 commencing at the south pavilion, has an inside width of 19 feet 7 

 inches and is subdivided into five rooms, two of which are used by 

 the division of reptiles and batrachians and three by the division 

 of marine invertebrates. 



Both corners at the outer end of the wing are enclosed to form 

 two large rooms, each with interior dimensions of about 47 by 28 

 feet. The southern room is the office for property and supplies and 

 contains extensive storage facilities for articles of small size; while 

 the northern room is the shipping and registration office. They are 

 separated by the wagon drive, the floor of which, paved with vitrified 



