CHAPTER X. 
THE MUSEUM BUILDINGS, 
The buildings of the Indian Museum stand on a plot of 
land thus described in the schedule attached to the Museum 
Act of 1910:— 
Land bounded— 
On the north side by the premises No. 2, Sudder Street, and by 
Sudder Street; 
On the west side by Chowringhee Road and by the premises 
No. 29, Chowringhee Road (occupied by the Bengal United 
Service Club); 
On the south side by the premises No. 29, Chowringhee Road, 
by Kyd Street, and by the premises No. 4, Chowringhee 
Lane;and 
On the east side by the premises No. 15, Kyd Street, and the 
premises Nos.-4, 3, 2 and 1, Chowringhee Lane, 
together with all buildings, roads and tanks existing or erected 
thereon, and all easements appertaining thereto. 
This land, the greater part of which was given to 
the Trustees by government when their board was insti¬ 
tuted, is not entirely occupied by the Museum buildings, 
for it also contains the Calcutta School of Art,y which 
(despite the above schedule) is apparently not owned by 
the Trustees, and the offices, laboratories and library of the 
Geological Survey of India. The building in which these 
latter are housed belongs to the Trustees but has been lent by 
them to. the Survey. Extensive gardens, moreover, are 
included, and a large ‘‘tank” or pond which at one time 
played an important part in the water-supply of Calcutta 
but is now more useful as a hunting-ground for zoologists: 
in particular it supports more species of freshwater sponge 
than any body of water of similar area that has ever been 
investigated. Servants’ barracks also occupy a considerable 
area near the Geological Block on a piece of land bought by 
the Trustees in 1905. 
The oldest building directly connected with the Museum 
