New Buildings Of The Brit...
The Times, 1824-02-20T00:00:00

Iis-t?piogedjthit: tieiew buUdis or.-tre u m ob or &a quarangleat-havir' f thgeprincipa entrate itte of th f wards Great'usslstre&L~ The rooms on the right of the entraece, with all thoseon-the east and north sides of the quadraLgle on the ground.floor will be ajjppo- priated to receive the collection of printed tkk and 1ijan rts, and .will contain irom 400,000to 500,00( volumes.: On the floor et- tending over these room;, it is proposed to pl4ce ibe dirnt otoltee tioS of natural history, mineralogy, zoology,botny,. &c..- The rooms on the left of the entr.ance. and in the nest sld'ef e quadrangle, will, on both floors, be fltted to worki of art. : The' Egypatian antiquities,. and all thoe whieh d6 not re4djre g;putnieu lIr arrangement of light, would be plted on the . aeoutdstoej, and severjl flleriea m)y be built, extending weatwardf rt d* d the q,uadnle, to receive tbe Athenian marbIai; and Colls-ion s it classical antiquities; in which roos, as threY Would-be coade a ly one story high, the objects can be lighted with, adt tage frtt the ceiling. la o rder to complete the arrangement pooed in tbiai the; Townleg marbles wroitd beremtoved to ont of the We ales, sp priating the rooms in which they are nor ;placedl to the ,sdfaler pe- cimens of Eg,yptian snd other aniqurrie.; auch alteratito beisl . made eo the present building as would be necessary for ihe bewv at ransgements, and external unifbormity of the design for ttep ic 'ipa The first floor of this wing wrill be reserved for collections of fps.t ings, prints and other works of s~rt. The whoie building is proposed to be constructed int such a 7an.. ner as to be secure from injurv by fire. -k It is proposed to build at present the east wn oft the buailding - it will contain the royal library in one rooma, 300 feet. long, 49# feett widle, and 30 feet high. Adjoining this room is a tepository for the manuscripts, and two reading roams of large dimensipns, which would be connected with the rooms of the present library, by a ten. porary communication. Itoor proposed to llot the principal part of the spae. on tle first floor of thisi wing to the receptien opi 'th-e mnore precious. artIcles of Uatural history; and t, place in it also a temporary arrngemeoti of any coUection of paintings that may bS formed in the Musem, till the Proposed gallery on the opposite wing, or westj side 'of the quadrangle, is built, when the whole of this wing would be ap- propriated to die department of natural history, as before desrb. ed: all the rooms on this upper floor would be lighted from theeof It isestimated that the expens of erecting the cast wing wilL amount to the sum of about 20l.e0o, inclaing in this calewlatdom the probable cost, as far as the same can be now asceftained, ot all the book-eases, and other cases and fittings, for the different c"Uec tions proposed to be placed in this building. The three sides of the quadrangle muight be built and ocpied, wlhilc the cextral part of the present house, and the wings contaninrg the apartments of the officers continue to stand; and the quasran- gle could be completed accoraing to the designs when it became de- sirable or necessary to take down these old buillings. NEW' fflr6DZN4Gf 0~'~i~EI~glJUSBUJI...