Prefatory Note. 



It is the purpose of this Guide to call attention to the more important 

 exhibits that the visitor will see as he passes through the halls; more 

 detailed information regarding many of them may be obtained from the 

 labels or from the Guide Leaflets. 



, It is frequently necessary to rearrange the exhibits in order to provide 

 space for new material or to put into effect advanced ideas regarding 

 methods of exhibition, and as these changes are taking place all the time, 

 it unavoidably happens that now and then discrepancies will be found 

 between the actual arrangement of the specimens and that noted in the 

 Guide. Dr. Goode has said that a finished museum is a dead museum, 

 and it is hoped that the visitor will look upon these necessary changes 

 as indications of life and progress. 



The halls are named according to the position tbey will have in the completed Museum build- 

 ing, which will consist of four long facades, facing eiist, west, north and south respectively, each con- 

 nected with the center of the quadrangle formed by a wing extending between open courts. Thus 

 the hall at the eastern end of the south facade (the only facade completed) becomes the "southeast 

 pavilion." 



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