14 Twenty-sixth Report on the State Museum. 



On the 'main floor, we have added in the hall 159 feet in length of 

 shelf room for the economic collection. 



l7h the office room or Library the Botanical cases are oifour tim^es 

 the capacity of 1866. The book-cases have more than la^ve times 

 their former capacity. 



In the south room, adjoining the Library, we have added three 

 drawer cases of thirty-eight feet linear extent by eight feet high, 

 containing one thousand and sixty-two square feet of drawer area, 

 and cases of shelves for storing books, trays and material for use in 

 the Museum, of the capacity of three hundred and five cubic feet. 



On the first floor, table cases for geological series, under glass, 351 

 square feet of area. 



Drawers under glass cases, 114 square feet of area. Cases added 

 to the Palseontological series, 129 square feet. 



Yertical cases on north side of room, giving an area of glass front 

 of about 160 square feet. Shelves for economic collections, iron ores, 

 etc., eighty-nine feet length. Platform for fossil trunks of Psaronius, 

 thirty-three feet area. 



On the second floor, we have added the old cases of the Mazatlan 

 collection from the floor above, making 120 feet area. Platform for 

 skulls and bones of the Mastodon*, etc., forty-two feet area. We 

 have added vertical cases, giving 200 feet of glass front, and also 

 added to the floor room 832 feet of area by closing two openings into 

 the room below. These two areas now give space for all the large 

 Mammal skeletons and casts of similar objects. 



On the third floor, we have replaced the Mazatlan cases by one 

 containing an area of 187 square feet, or sixty-seven square feet more 

 than the old one. We have the cases of the Gould collection of 

 shells, 368 square feet area; drawers under these cases of 1,568 

 square feet area. Cases at west end of room for Invertebrata, 220 

 square feet area ; drawers beneath these cases, 700 square feet. Shelf 

 room for fishes, 136 feet in length. Case at east end of room, 105 

 square feet area. On the north side four vertical cases, giving 

 an area of glass front 169 square feet, for the collection of recent 

 radiata. 



Within a few weeks nearly the whole of the space above men- 

 tioned, with the exception of the drawers, will be fully occupied ; a 

 small area only in the Invertebrate case will remain. 



The drawers will be gradually filled as the collections shall be 

 arranged and distributed. 



