The building resembles a large square of three stories. The stores are piled up on the ground [floor], one flight up are the mammals in the hall and the minerals and fossils in adjoining rooms; the newly arrived skeletons are in the foyer, in particular colossal one[s] of the hippopotamus and of the crocodile, with several enormous skins of the first; next door is a room for taxidermy. Two flights up are the birds, illuminated from the sides and from above. They are mounted tastefully and conveniently in completely transparent glass cases…

It gives a splendid impression and must induce a distinct feeling of satisfaction in every Frankfurter, since he can say to himself: this is the adornment of your city, to which you have contributed your share, which spreads the fame of the state in the [whole] world and transmits its name to posterity!