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students, while the part allotted to the public contains smaller 
collections carefully arranged with a view to instruction. 
The following enumeration of the contents and uses of the 
rooms is quoted from the report, and gives a good idea of the 
plan adopted. 
Exhibition Rooms. 
Synoptic Room :—Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom, living 
and fossil. 
Five Systematic Rooms :—1. Mammalia, 2. Birds, 3. Fishes, 
4. Mollusca, 5. Radiates and Protozoa; and their galleries for 
the systematic collections of Reptiles, Insects, and Crustacea. 
Eight (?) Faunal Rooms and Galleries :—1. North American, 
2. South American, 3. African, including Madagascar, 4. Indian, 
5. Australian, 6. Europeo-Siberian, 7. Atlantic, 8. Pacific. 
Four Rooms for the Palceontological Collections :—1. and 2. 
Two rooms for the Palceozoic (1. Silurian and Devonian ; 2. 
Carboniferous and Jurassic), 3. Cretaceous, 4. Tertiary. 
The work rooms for the assistants of the museum, and the 
storage rooms, which are also intended as work rooms of their 
special Subjects are distributed as follows, in addition to a large 
receiving room and a general workshop :— 
The Aicoholic Collections stored in the basement occupy 
four rooms devoted to Fishes; two rooms for Fishes and 
Reptiles; one room for Birds and Mammals; one room for 
Mollusca ; one room for Crustacea; one room for the other 
Invertebrates. 
The Entomological Department is to occupy eventually four 
gallery rooms of the first story. 
The Work Rooms and Storage Rooms of the fifth story are 
filled by collections occupying five rooms devoted to Birds 
and Mammals ; three for skins and eggs ; and two for skeletons ; 
one room for Crustacea ; one room for Mollusca; one room for 
Fish and Reptile skeletons; one room for the collection of dry 
Invertebrates (Corals, Echinoderms, sponges, etc.) ; two rooms 
for Fossil Vertebrates exclusive of Fishes. 
The remaining Paleontological collections are crowded into 
four work and storage rooms. 
Two work rooms for the Geological and Lithological depart- 
ment. 
Four rooms are devoted to the Library of the Museum, and 
one room for the office of the Curator. 
There are also a large general Lecture Room; three 
laboratories for students in Biology; three laboratories for 
students in Geology and Paleontology, with two smaller private 
rooms for the Instructors. 
With the Biological laboratories will be connected also a large 
room for an Aquarium for both fresh-water and marine animals, 
and another room for a Vivarium, both of which are in the base- 
ment of the building. 
“Tn adopting a small unit for the size of our rooms (30 x 40 ft.), 
we deliberately abandoned all attempts at Exhibition Rooms im- 
