FUTURE SCOPE AND ARRANGEMENT OF EXHIBITIONS 



in this country, so that it is believed this grand hall will be completely 

 filled, and constitute one of the finest features of the Museum. Studies 

 are being made for the architectural and mural decoration of the hall 

 in keeping with its contents, so that it will be for all time the anthro- 

 pological gateway to the Museum and the main evening entrance. 



Adjoining this hall will be two smaller auditoriums capable of 

 seating three hundred persons each, for the use of public school teachers 

 and pupils, the New York Academy of Sciences, and other affiliated 

 societies. 



The West Transept may be devoted to the ARCHEOLOGY AND 

 ETHNOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA and the South Pacific coast. 



SECOND FLOOR.— The second, or main floor of the Museum 

 may be devoted on the east to the Geographic or Faunistic arrange- 

 ment of the Higher Animal Life of the World, and on the west to a 

 continuation of American Anthropology and Ethnology. The Rotunda 

 will be occupied by an elaboration of the PLANETARY SYSTEM 

 which is now placed in the Foyer. A grand new East and West 

 Transept connecting the East Entrance Hall with the West Entrance 

 Hall will provide space for the permanent display of the relative 

 distances of the remote planets. 



The entrance point of the second floor will be the grand new East 

 Entrance Hall, a two- or possibly three-story opening surrounded by 

 galleries. Facing the visitor will be the East Transept Hall devoted, 

 to the LIFE OF AFRICA, for which collections are now being made 

 in British East Africa, in the Uganda Protectorate, and in the Congo, 

 in addition to the already considerable collections in the Museum. It 

 is proposed here to give the visitor an impression of the entire life of 

 Africa, of its most distinctive mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes, as 

 well as types of man. Supplementing these exhibits will be photo- 

 graphs and transparencies of characteristic African scenery. Models 

 will display the principal geographic and physiographic characters. 

 In brief, a visit to the African Hall will resemble as nearly as is possible 

 in a museum a visit to Africa itself. This method of treatment is 



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