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Above the first landing the staircase divides into two flights, 
each leading to one of the corridors which flank the west and 
east sides of the hall, and by which access is gained to the 
galleries of the first floor of the building. At the southern end 
of these corridors two staircases, raised on arches spanning the 
hall, join to form a central flight leading to the second or upper 
most floor. On the landing at the top of this flight is placed 
a marble statue by Chantrey of Sir Joseph Banks (b. 1743, statue of 
Banks. 
Fig. 13. — A Female Okapi (OJcapia johnstoni, or 0. ericksoni). 
d. 1820), who for forty-one years presided over the Eoyal 
Society, and was an active Trustee of the Museum. His 
botanical collections are preserved in the adjoining gallery, but 
his unrivalled library of works on natural history, also bequeathed 
to the Museum, remains at Bloomsbury, where the statue, 
erected by public subscription in 1826, stood until it was 
removed to its present situation by direction of the Trustees in 
the year 1886. 
