. The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909 . and storageof large collections, casts, etc., in a rough state, and certain roughgrades of preparation work. The heating and lighting plant will beplaced economically south of the West Transept. FIRST FLOOR.—The first floor wiU be devoted on the east sideto certain physical and biological branches of science, and on thewest to American Anthropology especially of North America. It willbe appropriate to devote the FOYER, after the removal of the meteor-ites and the planetary s
. The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909 . and storageof large collections, casts, etc., in a rough state, and certain roughgrades of preparation work. The heating and lighting plant will beplaced economically south of the West Transept. FIRST FLOOR.—The first floor wiU be devoted on the east sideto certain physical and biological branches of science, and on thewest to American Anthropology especially of North America. It willbe appropriate to devote the FOYER, after the removal of the meteor-ites and the planetary system, entirely to memorials of the Trustees,of prominent members of the Scientific Staff, and of men distinguishedin the history of American science. The scientific sequence of this floor will be understood by beginningwith ASTRONOMY in the Rotunda, in which, in a darkened hall,photographs of the heavens will be displayed by transmitted light, asexplained above. The adjoining East Transept and East Entrance [134] o V V / A NTMROPOLa Y f^ Bl Street f\ I I i I I ; I i THE pRijMiTiYe: ANO PCRiveo ij^ou^TRies —Li. INDIANS OP- TMeSOUTHWEST CALirORNiA ANO SOUTH PACiriCCOAST
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