. Science . dinghere reproduced^ is intended merely as a 19 [From preliminary sketches by the firm oiShepley, Eutan and Coolidge. Some of the desig-nations of rooms here employed should be modi-fied. The name conversazione room for thelarge public hall comes from the annual conver-saziones of the Eoyal Society, where many instru-ments and experimental exhibits are shown. Thephotographic room (not needed on this floor)should be used for council meetings, setting freethe room allotted in the plan to the council fora members ante-room, adjoining the meetingroom. The meeting, lecture and exhibitio
. Science . dinghere reproduced^ is intended merely as a 19 [From preliminary sketches by the firm oiShepley, Eutan and Coolidge. Some of the desig-nations of rooms here employed should be modi-fied. The name conversazione room for thelarge public hall comes from the annual conver-saziones of the Eoyal Society, where many instru-ments and experimental exhibits are shown. Thephotographic room (not needed on this floor)should be used for council meetings, setting freethe room allotted in the plan to the council fora members ante-room, adjoining the meetingroom. The meeting, lecture and exhibition hallsare shown in Fig. 2 as extending up through thesecond floor, but the laboratories and other partsof the building would be divided into severalstories of ordinary height. The laboratories mayof course be devoted to any desired field of re-search, and the designations are merely intendedto suggest that one of these be in the physical andthe other in the biological sciences.] 14 [N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1044. JANUAEY 1, 1915] SCIENCE 15 basis for discussion. The large public hallinto which the main entrance leads is forthe proposed exhibit of current research,illustrating the latest advances in pure andapplied science, both American and for-eign. The public would undoubtedly ap-preciate an opportunity to see undermicroscopes the most recently discoveredbacilli, examine specimens illustrat-ing the experimental variation of plants oranimals, photographs showing new as-tronomical discoveries, experimental dem-onstrations of physical phenomena like therecently found Stark effect (the influence ofan electric field on radiation), the structureof crystals, X-ray spectra and their bearingon the constitution of the atom, etc. Asthe home of such an exhibit, and the placeof publication of the Proceedings, announc-ing the current advances of American re-search, the Academy would soon be recog-nized in its true character as the naturalcenter and promoter of the scientific workof the
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