Prospectus of Building 19 



providing visual instruction material in geography, history and 

 natural science, which numbered 209,451 and served 182 schools. 

 The circulating collections for branches of the New York Public 

 Library were studied by 106,831 persons. The number of schools 

 served outside of the Museum was 477 in all the Boroughs, and 

 the number of pupils studying the collections was 1,247,515. 



In less than a year, observations made and photographs col- 

 lected by Museum expeditions in Australia, Asia, South America, 

 Polynesia and Western Europe may be made accessible to the 

 public school teachers for classroom work. This branch of the 

 Museum's activity has far outgrown the present space capacity 

 of the Museum to care for it properly. On a single day, as 

 many as 2,500 high school boys and girls may be in the Museum 

 preparing for their examinations. They must be adequately 

 taken care of. Still more elaborate is the care which must be 

 extended to large classes coming for a day from outlying parts 

 of the City of New York or from neighboring cities both in 

 New York and New Jersey, which are using the Museum in in- 

 creasing numbers, and desire to remain in the building during 

 the day. It is for these purposes that a special School Service 

 Building has been planned in the Southwest Court, to be devoted 

 exclusively to school education in all its grades. This building 

 is now under consideration by the Board of Estimate. This will 

 be Section n of the building program. 



The following is a prospectus of the present and future build- 

 ing plans, as approved by the Trustees at the Annual Meetings 

 of 1921 and 1922: 



Sections Erected or Appropriated for 



Approximate 

 Cost 



Section 1— Bickmore 1874-1877 $700,000.00 



Section 2— Jesup 1890-1891 800,000.00 



Section 3— North American 1894-1895 600,000.00 



Section 4— South American 1895-1897 511,775.00 



Section 5— Arctic and Antarctic 1897-1899 -529,002.50 



Section 6— European 1897-1899 417,632.50 



Section 7— Present Lecture Hall 1899-1900 108,900.00 



Section 8— Polynesian : 1906-1908 511,090.63 



Section 9— Asiatic 1922-1924 ) « , m mn m 



Section 10-Oceanic 1922-1924 \ 1 ^^ m - 00 



$5,678,400.63 

 Supplementary Equipment for All Sections.. 1900-1921 1,256,420.85 



Total past cost $6,934,821.48 



