HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



This circle completes the circuit of the world and will be equivalent 

 to a great journey around the globe and from pole to pole. 



The anthropological section to the west may include two halls 

 devoted to AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY extending into the South- 

 west Pavilion, rich materials for which are already in the possession 

 of the Museum. From this we pass into the Southwest Hall which 

 may be devoted to the Archaeology and Ethnology of ECUADOR 

 AND COLOMBIA, in which our materials are at present very limited. 

 This naturally connects with the gallery floor of the MEXICAN AND 

 CENTRAL AMERICAN HALL, and leads into the PERUVIAN 

 HALL in the West Transept, in which our collections are particularly 

 rich through the gifts of Mr. Henry Villard and others. 



THIRD FLOOR.— The third floor may be devoted on the east 

 to the Animal Kingdom, arranged by natural affinity or classification, 

 and on the west to the Anthropology of Europe, Asia, Indo-Malaya, 

 and Australia. 



If the second floor is especially devoted to the needs of the general 

 student, the third floor may be arranged especially for the needs of 

 special students of zoology of high school, college, and university 

 grade, as well as for animal lovers. On this floor we enter the south 

 transept with its beautiful HABITAT GROUPS OF BIRDS, im- 

 proved by the widening of the galleries. We pass into a SYSTEM- 

 ATIC COLLECTION OF BIRDS arranged according to affinity in 

 the Rotunda Gallery and also in the East Transept, and extending, if 

 necessary, into the galleries of the grand Entrance Hall. This leaves 

 four halls for the SYSTEMATIC COLLECTIONS OF MAMMALS. 

 One may be devoted appropriately to a SYNOPTIC COLLECTION, 

 or key to the classification of mammals, another to a COLLECTION 

 OF WHALES. The Central South Pavilion may be devoted perma- 

 nently to the Collection of MONKEYS AND APES, extended to 

 include the Transition to Primitive Man. 



This hall will naturally connect with that devoted to the RACES 

 OF MEN on the west, a subject of the utmost importance which we 



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