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of increasing the room wanted will have to be 

 considered hereafter. 



Space for exhibiting the collections, without 

 extending the site of the building, can be gained 

 only by changing the appropriation of the rooms, 

 or improving their internal arrangement, or by 

 adding another story to the whole or to a large 

 part of the present building. No additional space 

 can be obtained on the ground-floor for large 

 antiquities, and it is on that floor alone that they 

 can be well placed, without removing from their 

 present localities the Collections of Printed Books 

 and Manuscripts, at a very great cost of time and 

 money. This change would eventually render 

 other changes necessary in the whole building. 

 For, supposing these two collections, of Printed 

 Books and Manuscripts, were to be located, at 

 great inconvenience, in the new central building, 

 further room would, in about twenty years, be 

 wanted for the additions even to them."" The 



^ The removal of all the Collections of Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts from their present localities seems liable, for 

 the present at least, to insurmountable objections. The 

 scheme which promises considerable advantages, and ap- 

 pears open to fewer objections, is that of removing the 

 Printed Books from the lower shelves of the north portion 

 of the north side of the main building (Plan II., 34, 35, 39, 

 40, 42, 44), leaving those books which now occupy the 

 Cracherode Koom (Plan II., 37), the recesses in a line with 

 it on the south side of the Central Eoom (Plan II., 41), 

 and the Banksian Room where they are (Plan II., 43). 



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