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two will be the President and Vice-President of the Academy of Nat- 
ural Sciences. 
The University will elect a dean of the department, who will devote 
his entire time and energies to the development of the manifold inter- 
ests of the institute, which gives promise of being one of the greatest 
of its kind not only in this country, but also will rank high among 
similar departments in the European schools of anatomy. Fellow- 
ships will be established in order to afford deserving students ample 
opportunity for extended researches in this department. 
Dr. Horace Jayne, the retiring dean of the college department of 
the University, has presented his famous anatomical collection, pur- 
chased some years ago from the renowned Collector Wade, to the 
Wistar Institute. The collection is composed principally of mammals, 
including a large number of alcoholic specimens and a complete set of 
rhinoceros skeletons. 
Work on the building was begun less than two years ago. It is 
of buff brick, plainly but handsomely finished in buff terra cotta, 
and so constructed as to permit of additions being made with 
facility. The structure is thoroughly fire proof, and is provided with 
the most approved fire-escapes. It has a depth of sixty-six feet on 
Woodlaud Avenue, and a frontage of two hundred and thirty-seven 
feet on Thirty-sixth Street. On the latter thoroughfare is the broad 
entrance leading into a large vestibule eighteen by twenty feet. To 
the left of the entrance the curator’s room is situated, and to the left 
is the lecture room connecting with the professor’s room. The main 
entrance from the vestibule leads into the main hall, the dimensions of 
which are forty-four by thirty-six feet. 
Passing through the hall to the left one will find the main museum 
a roomy apartment of fifty by one hundred and ten feet, furnished 
throughout with all the appliances necessary for an institution of the 
sort. Two smaller rooms toward the Spruce Street end are reserved for 
the reception of private collections. 
The second floor will be devoted principally to work-rooms and pro- 
fessors’ apartments. It will also contain a library and a museum cor- 
responding in size to the one on the lower floor. Three more work- 
rooms are located on the third floor, with quarters for the janitor. 
There will also be another museum formed of galleries eighteen feet - 
wide, overlooking the similar department on the floor below. 
The basement will be devoted exclusively to work-rooms, all of x 
bie will be furnished ne zines, flues and other mes moniy 
