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braries \\411, in certain cases, upon application, be returned to the 
General Library’ for the use of an applicant. 
7. Any defacement of books and all losses or injuries must be 
promptly adjusted to the satisfaction of the Librarian. 
In the Reading Room will be found the current magazines 
and periodicals pertainmg mope particularly to scientific, tech’ 
nical and kindred subjects. 
HALL 34. 
LECTURE HALL. 
This is reserved for all public meetings, lectures, etc., held 
in the Museum. Courses of popular lectures on travels, expedi- 
tions, investigations and on scientific and technical subjects are 
here given on Saturday afternoons of March and April, and Oc- 
tober and November, by curators of the museum and prominent 
investigators and scientists. The lectures are usually illustrated 
with stereopticon views. 
The semi-circular mural paintings on the sides of the room 
possess an intrinsic and historical value. The one on the north 
wall — a scene in Homeric Greece — is by Mr. F. D. Millet ; the 
other illustrates a typical industry, that of pottery, and is by L. 
K. Earle. These paintings adorned the ceilings of the corner 
pavilions to the Manufacturers Building, and were contributed 
by the Exposition to the Museum. On the west wall is a large 
equestrian picture of General Winfield Scott, while opposite it is 
one of General John A. Logan — the former loaned by Robert Mc- 
Curdy, the latter by the Chicago Veteran Club. In the corners 
of the Hall are placed a heroic bust of Washington, presented 
by Susse Freres of Paris: a h'fe-size statue of Edwin M. Stan- 
ton, Secretary of War in the Lincoln cabinet, and the stooping 
figure of a fawn — a fragment of a fountain — by R. P. Bring- 
hurst, of St. Louis. 
