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Power House. Steam for heating the conservatories is 

 supplied from the power house, located near the New York 

 Central Railroad just south of the 200th street entrance and 

 connected with the conservatories by a subway about six 

 hundred feet long containing the steam mains ; five boilers 

 are installed at the power house and supply steam not only to 

 the conservatories, but also to the museum building through 

 another subway about twelve hundred feet in length. 



2. The Botanical fluseum 



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. 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 archi- 

 tectural 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. 



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 ap- 

 proach 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 building 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. Especial care has been taken to admit nothing 

 but authentic specimens, and these are arranged as products, 



