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HE COMPLETION of the long talked of Hall of Natural History marks au epoch in the development of the College. The great interest which has everywhere been taken in the natura l sciences during the last few :years has made it necessary that the space set aside for this work at Trinity College be commensu rate with the importam~e of the subject. The new building is intended to accomplish this an d more,-it is not only to provide suitable quarters for the present, but it is to meet the growth of the future. With this broad purpose in view, the different portions of the building have not been constructed for certain special uses , but th e endeavor ha s been to provide rooms of such general excellence and adap tability that they shall be equally well fitted for the work now carried on at Trinity, a nd for such new branches of natural history as may be developed in the coming century. That this is so will be seen from a brief inspection of the plans of the building. The Hall of Natural History is a rectangular building with a frontage of 122 feet and a depth of 72 ft'et, standiPg to the w est of the Jarvis Hall of Science and facing north upon the campus. It is of brick with brown stone trimmings and contai ns three working flo o rs. In addition to these the slope of the land allows the development of the easter n end of the basement into what may be practically regarded as a fourth working floor . The m a in floors of th e building may be said to be divided longitudinally into two portions, the rear or southern portion being g iven up t o the Museum. The front, or nort her n portion , contains the working room~ , situated about the central staircase hall. On the lower floor, immedia tely to the right of this hall a nd filling the entire
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