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This Museum of Pure Science will develop three-fifths of 



the original ground plan. 



The remaining two-fifths may advantageously be devoted 

 in part to the applications of science to health, to economics, 

 to industry, to mineralogy, to the textile arts and manu- 

 factures. Such museums have already been developed in 

 cities like Philadelphia and Munich, and such applications 

 of natural history and of anthropology are greatly needed 

 m the City of New York. The enlarged Lecture Hall may 

 be used in common, and for purposes of both pure and 

 applied science, it should have a seating capacity for 2,500 

 to 3,000 persons. It would be in practically constant use for 

 lectures and demonstrations in pure science, in applied 

 science and by the Board of Education. 



By combined municipal, state and individual effort, a 



Natural History Museum adequate for the coming fifty 



years may be completed in the year 1924, to 



Plans for celebrate our first half century. The prepara- 



New Buildings i + a A • 



tion of general plans may be completed during 

 the present year at an estimated cost of $3,500. The plans 

 and specifications for the SOUTHEAST WING and 

 COURT BUILDING were completed in May, 191 1, and 

 could be sent to the builder at once. Plans for the WEST 

 CENTRAL PAVILION will be restudied to meet the 

 greatly increased cost of modern building. Plans for the 

 remainder of the Transverse Section include the WEST CEN- 

 TRAL WING, the ASTRONOMIC HALL, the EAST CEN- 

 TRAL WING (AFRICAN HALL), combined with the 

 EAST CENTRAL PAVILION (proposed ROOSEVELT 

 MEMORIAL HALL). With the approval of Governor 

 Smith, a bipartisan State Commission will be appointed at 

 Albany to consider the various plans that have been suggested 

 as a State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Among the 

 suggested plans is that illustrated in the accompanying plates 

 of this Report, first brought forward in the Fiftieth Annual 

 Report. 



