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THE THREE NEW Hni.DIXdS NEEDED 



Our Founders i)r('S('iite{l us with a plan of building- of 

 Herculean proportions, larger, we believe, than the Escorial 

 of Spain, which enjoys the reputation of being t\w largest 

 building in the woi-ld, and larger than the Louvre, that magni- 

 ficent pile of Iniildings in which are housed the great art 

 collections which contribute so nuich to the glory of Paris. 

 The original plan for the ]\Iuseuni was a great square inter- 

 sected by a cross, which, counting the central section or 

 rotunda, included twenty-one sections. To these have been 

 added two court buildings, making twenty-three sections 

 altogether, which we have designated as paviUons and wings, 

 the term hall being reserved for each of the several great 

 interior divisions of the respective floors. The building now 

 consists of eight and a half sections, erected during the first 

 half-century The last of these, the SOUTHWEST WING, 

 was completed in 1908. 



Eleven years ago the Cit}' approved thc^ j)lans for a new 

 SOUTHEAST WING AND COURT BUILDING, for which 

 very beautiful and careful plans have been prepared by our 

 present architects, Messrs. Trowbridge and Livingston. 

 These buildings were designed to include : 



HALLS AND COURT OF OCEAN LIFE AND OF 

 OCEANOGRAPHY (Ground Floor), 



HALL OF ASIATIC LIFE (Second Floor), 



GALLERY OF MOLLUSCS (COURT BUILDING), 



HALL OF REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS (Third 

 Flooi-), 



HALL OF JIllASSIC DINOSAURS (Fourth Floor) 



