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Visitors 

 Room 



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 

 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 

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

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

 dent. Under 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 Museum 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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Statue of 

 Morris K. Jesup 



