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 affihated 
societies. 
The West Transept may be devoted to the ARCHAEOLOGY 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 coUections 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 
wiU 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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