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FIRST FLOOR 

 SOUTH PAVILION 



^Memorial Hall 



Visitors 

 Room 



The Information Bureau and the Visitors' Room are on either side of 

 the south entrance. Wheel chairs for children or adults are available 

 without charge. Postcards, photographs, guide leaflets, and Museum 

 pubhcations of various sorts are for sale, and visitors may 

 arrange to meet friends here. On the right and left of the 

 entrance are small Assembly Halls in which lectures to 

 classes from the pubhc schools of the City are given and w^here the New 

 York Academy of Sciences and other scientific societies hold their meet- 

 ings. 



From the lobby the visitor first enters Memorial Hall and faces the 

 marble statue of Morris K. Jesup, third President of the 

 ^Museum. Mr. Jesup was a founder, trustee and benefac- 

 tor of the ]Museum and for twenty-seven years its Presi- 

 dent. L'nder his administration and through his liberality the Museum 

 made rapid progress. This statue of Mr. Jesup was executed by William 

 Couper and was presented to the ]\Iuseum bj^ the Trustees and a few- 

 other friends. The mar]:)le busts in the wall niches represent noteworthy 



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Statue of 

 Morris K. Jesup 



