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ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTIONS 



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January 1st, 1879. 



[Note. — A Visitors' Guide is in course of preparation, but large additions having just been 

 received, necessitating a re-arrangement of the collections, the present schedule is now pub- 

 lished for gratuitous distribution.] 



THE BUILDING. 



The building now completed is one section of a plan that can be ex- 

 tended until it occupies the entire area of Manhattan Square, which 

 contains 18i acres. A photographic copy of the ground plan is dis- 

 played on the right-hand side entrance, showing that marginal park -like 

 areas border the structure upon the outside, and within are four open 

 coiirts; also a plan and views showing the proposed improvements on 

 our Square during the present year. 



This building has been erected by the City, and the collections dis- 

 played are purchased by private subscriptions, and are the property of 

 the Museum. 



The lowest story is 18 feet high ; the second, or principal story, 

 including the gallery, is 30 feet; the upper story 22 feet, and the 

 rooms in the mansard story 16 feet in height. Each hall is 170 feet 

 long and 60 wide inside the walls. 



On the left-hand side of the entrance are plans of the new Museum 

 of Natural History, now in process of erection by Her Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment at South Kensington, London, and beneath it a plan of the 

 British Museum, the red line indicating the boundary of our Square on 

 the same scale. 



COLLECTIONS EXHIBITED IN THE LOWER STORY. 



The desk-cases ranged through the middle of the lower hall are filled 

 with the Jay collection of Shells, presented by Miss C. L. Wolfe, as a 



