HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 
Pavilion may be devoted appropriately to the sciences of the earth, to 
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, and MINERALOGY. This 
floor and the space under the entrance steps leading to the second floor 
entrance lends itself to the display of sections of mines and sections of 
the interior of the earth. In the adjoining Southeast Wing the visitor 
will pass into OCEANOGRAPHY — the geography and physical 
constitution of the sea bottom and sea water — as an introduction to 
the LIFE OF THE SEA, which, in turn, will lead into the Southeast 
PaviUon devoted to a synopsis of the ANIMAL KINGDOM, especially 
the lower forms of life, a hall which was dedicated to the memory of 
Charles Darwin on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. The 
communicating South Hall will be devoted to WOODS AND FOR- 
ESTRY, an extension of the already remarkable Jesup Collection, into 
the domain of Applied Forestry. Passing through the MEMORIAL 
HALL we enter the South Transept, which will be devoted entirely 
to the North Pacific Tribes of Indians from British Columbia to Alaska 
the Eskimo Exhibit to be removed to the floor above. 
Passing from the Memorial Hall to the west we enter the South 
Hall devoted to the INDIANS OF NEW YORK, of the eastern coast 
of the United States, and the CENTRAL STATES, including the 
Mound Builders. This is a natural geographic introduction to the 
INDIANS OF THE PLAINS, which may occupy the Southwest 
Pavihon and lead naturally into the Southwest Hall devoted to the 
INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, especially to the splendid col- 
lections assembled by the Hyde Expeditions and the present Hunt- 
ington Expeditions. 
A grand feature of the Museimi will be the new West Entrance 
Pavilion, devoted to MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN 
ARCHiEOLOGY, a two-story hall with gallery, suitable for the re- 
ception of reproductions of portions of the great temples, altars, and 
stelae of the Aztec, Zapotecan, and Mayan cultures, in which the native 
art and architecture of America reaches its high-water mark. It is 
proposed to add to the Loubat Collection by fresh expeditions in 
Mexico, and to secure by exchange and purchase other collections now 
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