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 ARCHAEOLOGY 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 Archseologv^ 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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