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Steam for heating the conservatories, range 2, is supplied 

 from a boiler house near this structure, a little to the north. 



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 

 driveway 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 tulip trees. 



The public collections in this building are: 



1. THE MUSEUM OF ECONOMIC BOTANY 



This occupies the entire main floor, and comprises both 

 crude and refined products of plants used in the arts, the 

 sciences, and the industries, as well as illustrative photo- 

 graphs and drawings. The specimens are arranged as 

 products, including foods, drugs, fibers, gums, resins, 

 sugars, rubbers, spices and flavoring-agents, dye-stuffs, 

 tanning-materials, plant-constituents, fixed- and volatile- 

 oils, cork, starches, and others as indicated by the accom- 

 panying 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 



