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...basement of the new laboratory, will be rooms for high-pressure experimentation, for x-ray apparatus, and for research in high frequency and vacuum tubes. Beneath this will be a sub-basement where there will be a special x-ray work-room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt...
...basement of the new structure will be several much needed stack-rooms. On the first floor there will be an extension of the delivery room to the whole width of the addition. On this floor also there will be a reference room, a room for the catalogue staff, a work-room and a shelf-department room extending, in the order mentioned, from the delivery room. On the second floor, over the delivery room, there will be a large room 53x26 feet for valuable books and manuscripts, and also a stenographers' gallery. In the centre will be a map and atlas...
Your correspondent was permitted a few days ago, by the kindness of Professor Samuel Garman, to explore the quarters which be occupies in the basement of the museum. His quarters are roomy and sunny, and his work-room is nicely fitted up. Professor Garman is one of the least known, but one of the most valuable of all of our professors. He probably is the greatest expert in the country on reptiles and is constantly in the receipt of specimens from the fish commission for somerclature and analysis. Several new species bear his name - a great compliment in scientific circles...
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