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Rh contain fourteen bookcases, running across the stores with a gangway on either side. Each bookcase is 6 feet 7 inches in height, and there are five storeys of them, two being below the reading-room floor and three above. They are lighted by windows placed between each case, those on the interior walls opening into four small courts between the book-stores and the news-rooms. The shelving capacity of the library is about 400,000 volumes. The whole of the book-cases are of iron; in fact, there is no wood used in the building, with the exception of the doors. Fig. 141 shows the disposition of the rooms on the first floor. The basement is only used for a porter's residence and storage purposes.