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1. Elevators 4. Academy Room 



2. Information Bureau 5. West Assembiy Room 



3. Visitors' Room G. Collection of Corals 



FIRST FLOOR 



SOUTH PAVILION 



Memorial Hall 



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 



publications of various sorts are for sale, and visitors may 

 Visitors' 

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



entrance are small Assembly Halls in which lectures to 



classes from the public schools of the City are given and where the New 



York Academy of Sciences and other scientific societies hold their meetings. 



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



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



Morris K TesuD ^'''^^^^"^' ^^^' ^^^^P ^'^^ ^ founder, trustee and benefac- 

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

 dent. Lender 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 ^luseum by the Trustees and a few other 

 friends. The marble busts in the wall niches represent noteworthy pioneers 

 of American science, and are the gift of Morris K. Jesup. These include 



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