December 25 1951 XM&S DAI 
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Dr, John E, Graf 
Assistant Secretar7 
Ssiithsonlan Institution 
Dear Jrtoj* 
Belatiire to j'O-ir Xntfcjsr of Dscouiber ^ rs .the"'.a@w bldg, plan for re- 
plaeeasnt of the old Chapman buildings , f'- 
Wa vant to avoid running into circles, I am on the ground floor» you are 2.000 
miles away« I have one trouble, I have a fin© laemosy. All that you bring up has 
been discussed with Dr, flelaaor© on his -trips down^ as also with you, though pro¬ 
bably not in as mich detail. fJur new large bulldihg was built for the purposes 
I d©tailed. !Jo water on the upper floor. This upper floor would have the two 
front rooms for the librsiy. This library is much more than what now is in the 
Savins building, Ifuoh is at 0902 Amador Eoad* Another room for the herbarium, 
card indexes, records, etc, Wes^need a room for"laboratory glassvi^e, apparatus 
etc. Another for sdoroscopes, balarices, and sudh where w© win cut down on hn- 
»ddlty. tootjinr for the lltoratorf etc that la not xot'in to g^nto tte 
libipary rocsBs, Then there are chemicals, etc, preservative etc. True, at first 
8cm» of these rooms will not be full to capacity, but it won’t take long when 
we won ’t have room enough. I must take out of 0902 a lot that should go to the 
island, -■-si-'T-: 
Oar px^lem in the upper floor is to liek the dust, and reduce the humidity. 
We have the dust licked by our methsd ©f cemstructiffla, aai by this same con¬ 
struction we lower our humidity (|uite a lot, and when we have more adecruate 
current, then we can 
dry rooms . 
use 
, heaters, etc. Provision was made for 
We also have the gutters to run off the rain from the big roof, and in our plans 
we have provisions for a large concrete storage tank, west of the building, 
Ww for the lower floor, I gave details, perhaps not too clear to you. We have 
ysth (Ktf corner) for four toilets and four shewors, and we have the septic 
tank. We want to use mir present fiscal year funds to terminate, as far as we 
can, this lower floor. We start in a week or so laying the concrete floor. Wo 
want to get the terracotta blocks for the room division, windows (glass), the 
toilets and showers, briefly all that is needed, (iaa rocaa (another l/Sth) will 
be the photography room, and Soper offered to equip it for uc. Wo made provi- 
syns fca* diy roans and cabinets. At least oas room will bo needed for all of 
the stuff that is in the attic of our large lab And ve will have two or 
three rooms that can oa uaed for laboratoiy work, perhaps also in a pinch we 
could use tiiem jointly as dormitories, but dorinltories are best on a second 
floor# 
