NEED FOR A NEW BUILDING 67 



Owing to lack of an appropriation, no additions have been made 

 to the Museum building for the past ten years, and although a new wing 

 was authorized and the excavation for the basement actually made, 

 work was stopped in 1912. 



Due to this fact, and the continued work of the Museum expedi- 

 tions, all space in the Museum, and especially the storage rooms and 

 work rooms, have become badly congested. When Mr. Akeley began 

 the preparation of the group of African Elephants, intended as the 

 central piece for the projected African Hall, it was necessary to clear out 

 the Southeast Pavilion in order to provide necessary space; when the 

 collections were received from the Congo Expedition, the collection of 

 fishes was removed from the Central Corridor to the Bird Hall to furnish 

 a little storage room. The beautiful Reptile Groups are installed in 

 temporary quarters in the Central Pavilion, Second Floor, while nothing- 

 can be done toward exhibiting the collection of Mammals of the Sea, 

 and the African Hall — the most beautiful and comprehensive museum 

 exhibit yet devised — is still in the future. 



Return to the Elevators and ascend to the Third Floor. 



