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an Egyptian hall among the relics and Canopic jars of 

 Queen Thi and the vases of Etruria. This figuratively is 

 the condition of six of our large exhibition halls at the 

 present time. 



It is not a civic luxury, it is a paramount educational 

 necessity, which demands the completion of the building 

 plans of the Natural History Museum, in order that the 

 youth and the adults of the City may realize the full educa- 

 tional force and inspiration of our wonderful collections. 



HARMONIOUS EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION AT A 

 STANDSTILL 



Exhibition, in the desired educational sense, is at a stand- 

 still for lack of building space and for lack of cases in 

 five of our large halls. For want of the AFRI- 

 Lackof CAN, ASIATIC, POLAR and OCEANIC 



Space 0g HALLS, we are years behind in the exhibi- 



tion of our African collections, of our Asiatic 

 collections, of our Arctic and Antarctic collections, of our 

 Oceanic collections, of our South American collections. For 

 want of our projected HALL of FISHES, of REPTILES, 

 of BIRDS OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE, these 

 animals are untruthfully arranged at present. 



This is concurrent with the fact that the Museum has 

 Unquestionably the best staff of experts that has ever been 

 brought together in the history of this branch of science ; 

 men who are at the top of their profession not only in this 

 country but in the world, several men of genius. They are 

 drawn from many races, from many parts of the world; 

 they include expert preparators in every branch of natural 

 histoty, expert imitators of every known form of animal 

 and of plant life, from the minute bacterium to the gigantic 

 whale and dinosaur; they include painters and sculptors 

 of animal life who lead their professions. Supplying these 

 men with the scientific facts for artistic and educational 

 expression is our school of old and young explorers who 



