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I have suggested to be removed may be placed in drawers, and the 

 remainder may be provided with floor cases, as now arranged in the 

 Museum. 



The upper story of the State Hall contains nine large rooms, of which 

 five are situated to the east of the large corridor and are now in the 

 possession of the Regents.. These five rooms have been numbered for 

 convenience i, 3, 5, 7 and 9, beginning at the north-east corner of the 

 building. The rooms with even numbers are on the west side of the 

 corridor and are now used for the storage of State documents, except 

 room No. 2, which contains cases and furniture, and lithographed 

 plates belonging to the State Museum. 



Room No. 1, on the north-east corner, is designed as a library and 

 study for the Director. It is furnished with book-cases, desks, etc. 



Room No. 3, adjacent to the preceding, contains thirty ranges of 

 drawers, two and one-half inches deep, with twenty-four drawers in each 

 range, making in all, 720 drawers. It is intended to use this room for 

 the reception of collections which are being studied and described for 

 the Palaeontology of New York. The cases and drawers in this and the 

 other rooms are finished in oak and are very substantial and elegant in 

 appearance. 



No. 5 has twenty ranges of drawers with twenty-four drawers in each 

 range. This room was without light and used as a store-room for stoves, 

 boxes, etc. A large sky-light has been put in which converts it into a 

 well-lighted and useful room. A photographic dark-room has also been 

 constructed in the south-east corner of this room, with complete arrange- 

 ments for pursuing the work of photo-micrography already begun. The 

 cases of drawers in No. 5 are designed for the collection of fossil corals 

 of the Hamilton group. 



Room No. 7 is especially' adapted for the large collection of the fossil 

 corals of the upper Helderberg group, and has twenty-three ranges of 

 drawers three inches in depth, and seven ranges of drawers four inches 

 in depth. 



No. 9, on the south-east corner of the building, is a large, well-lighted 

 room, and is intended to be used as a working-room for the arrangement 

 and distribution of collections. It is furnished with cases along one 

 side containing 288 drawers. 



The rooms as now finished are arranged to contain 2,067 drawers, 

 distributed as follows : 



Room No. 3 will contain 720 drawers. 



Room No. 5 will contain 480 drawers. 



Room No. 7 will contain 579 drawers. 



Room No. 9 will contain 288 drawers. 



At the time of present writing there are 740 drawers fitted in the 

 cases and ready for use. 



