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ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



The accessions to the Museum during the year have been 

 many and varied, as shown by the detailed Hst in the appendix 

 to this report. Most of the accessions have been donations re- 

 ceived from exhibitors at the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition, among whom may be here mentioned the follow- 

 ing : The governments of Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, China, 

 Cuba, Guatemala, Denmark, Honduras, Japan, New Zealand, 

 Norway, the Netherlands, Porto Rico, and Sweden. Impor- 

 tant donations have also been received from the following: 

 The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 the states of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Missouri, 

 Louisiana, and New York; also from the Standard Oil Com- 

 pany, the Sacramento Valley Counties Association, the San 

 Joaquin Valley Counties Association, and the Anaconda Cop- 

 per Company. Considerable donations of cases, matting and 

 other articles have been received from the Exposition Board. 



LIBRARY 



About 3000 linear feet of metal book stacks have been in- 

 stalled in the library, which occupies rooms on both floors at 

 the south end of the research wing — a room with 846 square 

 feet of floor space on the second floor and one with 1344 square 

 feet of floor space on the first floor, or a total of 2190 square 

 feet. 



The books are now being arranged on the shelves accord- 

 ing to the Library of Congress Classification, and a good start 

 has been made with the accession list. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



Addition to the Museum Building. — It is already evident 

 that the present museum building is wholly inadequate for hous- 

 ing the collections and exhibits of the Academy already on 

 hand. For example, there is no place for the following habitat 

 groups already prepared : Elephant Seal group and the four 

 seasonal groups of the Black-tailed Deer. There is no suit- 

 able space for the two groups of Gigantic Land Tortoises and 

 the Iguana, for which we already have the materials, nor for 



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