HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Pavilion may be devoted appropriately to the sciences of the earth, to 

 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, and MINERALOGY. This 

 floor and the space under the entrance steps leading to the second floor 

 entrance lends itself to the display of sections of mines and sections of 

 the interior of the earth. In the adjoining Southeast Wing the visitor 

 will pass into THALASSOGRAPHY — the geography and physical 

 constitution of the sea bottom and sea water — as an introduction 

 to the LIFE OF THE SEA, which, in turn, will lead into the Southeast 

 Pavilion devoted to a synopsis of the ANIMAL KINGDOM, especially 

 the lower forms of life, a hall which was dedicated to the memory of 

 Charles Darwin on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. The 

 communicating South Hall will be devoted to WOODS AND FOR- 

 ESTRY^ an extension of the already remarkable Jesup Collection, into 

 the domain of Applied Forestry. Passing through the MEMORIAL 

 HALL we enter the South Transept, which will be devoted entirely 

 to the North Pacific Tribes of Indians from British Columbia to Alaska, 

 the Eskimo Exhibit to be removed to the floor above. 



Passing from the Memorial Hall to the West we enter the South 

 Hall devoted to the INDIANS OF NEW YORK, of the eastern coast 

 of the United States, and the CENTRAL STATES, including the 

 Mound Builders. This is a natural geographic introduction to the 

 INDIANS OF THE PLAINS, which may occupy the Southwest 

 Pavilion and lead naturally into the Southwest Hall devoted to the 

 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, especially to the splendid col- 

 lections assembled by the Hyde Expeditions and the present Hunt- 

 ington Expeditions. 



A grand feature of the Museum will be the new West Entrance 

 Pavilion, devoted to MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN 

 ARCHAEOLOGY, a two-story hall with gallery, suitable for the re- 

 ception of reproductions of portions of the great temples, altars, and 

 stela? of the Aztec, Zatopecan, and Mayan cultures, in which the native 

 art and architecture of America reaches its high-water mark. It is 

 proposed to add to the Loubat Collection by fresh expeditions in 

 Mexico, and to secure by exchange and purchase other collections now 



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