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2. The Botanical Museum 



The Museum Building has a frontage of 312 feet, and in 

 so far as now constructed, a depth of about 90 feet; the plan 

 of this building contemplates its future extension toward the 

 rear, so as to form a quadrangle enclosing a court. The 

 architectural style of the building is Italian Renaissance. 

 The walls are of light-colored brick and the trimmings of 

 terra-cotta. It has a steel frame and concrete floors. Three 

 floors are devoted to public exhibits, while the upper floor 

 contains study rooms, the library, laboratories and herbarium, 

 which may be used and consulted by permission. 



The building is approached by two straight driveways and 

 accompanying sidewalks leading from the main park drive- 

 way near the New York Central Railroad station ; this front 

 approach to the building is ornamented by a bronze fountain 

 executed by the sculptor Carl E. Tefft, and by terra-cotta 

 fountains and marble seats designed by R. W. Gibson, the 

 architect of the building. The vista lines are formed by 

 four parallel rows of trees. 



The public collections in this buildings are: 



1. THE MUSEUM OF ECONOMIC BOTANY 



This occupies the entire main floor, and here are brought 

 together both crude and refined products of plants used in the 

 arts, sciences and industries, illustrated also by photographs 

 and drawings. The specimens are arranged as products, 

 including food, drugs, fibers, gums, resins, sugars and others 

 as indicated by the accompanying floor plan. 



The arrangement of the larger groups is as follows: Foods 

 and fibers occupy the west hall, the former in cases on the 

 north side, the latter on the south. The west wing is mainly 

 given over to exhibits other than foods, fibers, drugs and 

 woods. The east hall contains the drugs, while the east 

 wing is set aside for the woods and wood products, and for 

 a collection illustrating North American dendrology. 



Fibers. Cases 1 to 18. — In the first case of the series 



