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lature and was allowed to occupy the building as long as he allowed 

 persons to pass through the hall into the State House Garden. His 

 son Kembrandt used the east room on the first floor as his studio, 

 while the entire second floor and tower was given up to the use of the 

 museum. 



The best picture that we have of the museum in Independence Hall 

 is found in a letter written by the late George Escol Sellers, of Chat- 

 tanooga, Tenn., a grandson of Peale, who as a boy and a young man 

 spent much of his time in the museum, and who subsequently became 

 one of its trustees. The period referred to in this letter is about 1820- 

 1824, twelve years or more after Charles Willson Peale ceased to take 

 an active part in the management, Mr. Eubens Peale being in control. 

 There is very little evidence that much of scientific value was added 

 after the father retired, except, perhaps, the collections of Major Long's 

 expedition to the Eocky Mountains, and Dr. Harlan's anatomical and 

 craniological preparations. 



Mr. Sellers, in describing the arrangement of the hall writes : 



I will go with you up the stairs and try to lead you through the Museum 

 rooms. At the top of the stairs is a small window where tickets to the Museum 

 are sold. We enter a great door from the landing and find ourselves in what 

 was called the hall lecture room. The bench seats rose all around at such an 

 angle that the two or three upper seats crossed the passage into the Quadruped 

 Room at sufficient height to give headway under them. To the right is a door 

 that is worthy of consideration. (This door leads into the Quadruped Room, 

 the south-west Room of the State House.) On the west end of the room, the 



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 From a diagram drawn by Mr. George Escol Sellers, from memory. 



