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Rh the staff offices which can be used as dressing rooms if desired. A public rest room should not be overlooked. Some thought must be given to the comfort of the guards and janitors. They will need lockers in which to keep their uniforms, and a dressing room. This same room can be used for their lunch room and should be provided with an electric plate or gas ring and a sink, so that coffee or other beverages may be heated and bottles washed. They will undoubtedly want to smoke at noon, and this room should therefore be so situated that it will be safe to allow this and also so that it can be properly ventilated without blowing the smoke into the halls of the museum. The public smoking room, or smoking room for the staff, should be entirely separate from this.

HEAT AND VENTILATION For some unknown reason we in America consider it necessary to place enormous radiators in the middle of our rooms or in some conspicuous place, and as often as not they are placed on the wall which is the most available for exhibition purposes. Experiments conducted in Berlin have been carried out with great care and the Kaiser Friedrich Museum is now heated by a system of radiators placed in every room in niches in the