. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 463 halls where they are not allowed to work unmolested. The machines and ventilators are set up in the basement, whereby injurious tremors and disturbing- noisi^s arc occasioned in the building. The electric light is furnished l)y the Edison Company. The ventilation was at first so arranged that no air could enter through , which were tightly screwed down, it being forced into the bui
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. STUDIES ON MUSEUMS AND KINDRED INSTITUTIONS. 463 halls where they are not allowed to work unmolested. The machines and ventilators are set up in the basement, whereby injurious tremors and disturbing- noisi^s arc occasioned in the building. The electric light is furnished l)y the Edison Company. The ventilation was at first so arranged that no air could enter through , which were tightly screwed down, it being forced into the building already washed and purified. However, one "couldn't breathe there," so it is. Fig. 50.—Newberry Library. Plan (if seeond floor. 42, history (56 by 68 feet); 43, corridor; 44, philosophy (60 by 66 feet); 48, large reading room (.59 by 6S feet); 49, (26by 50feet); 50, annex to art and literature (30by 33 feet); 51, art and literature (56 by 68 feet); 52, women's closet; 65, shaft. now ventilated by opening the windows, which have been altered for the purpose. The apparatus is either not rightly set up or not properly run, for similar ones are working satisfactorily in the Con- gressional Library at Washington and elsewhere. I shall speak more fully of this important subject when I treat of the public library (see p. 473). While the books could, with the ventilation that was designed, be kept free from dust or nearly so, now they arc soiled without hin- drance or require a greater expenditure for cleaning, and although the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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