Jan., 1922. Annual Report of the Director. 15 



Museum of Natural History, of which Institution our late associate 

 was not only a devoted Trustee but also one of the original incor- 

 porators." 



As important aids to the facilities for installation and mainten- 

 ance, there have been added to the Carpenter Shop machinery a bench 

 planer, variety saw and hollow chisel morticer, together with the 

 necessary motor equipment. During the year the shop made and 

 installed 1,606 lineal feet of book shelving of various depths, 11,676 

 square feet of storage shelving, racks for 1,450 trays, 28 work benches 

 of special designs with wood or soapstone top, fitted with drawers of 

 various dimensions, cupboards and pigeon holes. Racks for 437 stor- 

 age cans, three book stacks for the General Library and other mis- 

 cellaneous work has also been executed for the working areas on 

 third floor. The toning room and stock room in the Section of Pho- 

 tography have been furnished with lead lined tanks, cupboards, work 

 benches, shelving and window shutters. 



Considerable new apparatus has also been added to the Section of 

 Photography, which will undoubtedly increase the efficiency of the 

 work and enable the section to produce better and more accurate re- 

 sults. This section is now producing the picture postal cards which 

 are sold to visitors. 



Extensive additions have also been made to the equipment and 

 facilities in the Section of Printing. The space on the fourth floor, 

 formerly occupied by this section, was not considered suitable to ac- 

 commodate the additional work of printing the publications of the 

 Museum, all of which work, it has been decided, will be performed in 

 the Museum in the future. The section was therefore transferred 

 to a large, well-lighted room on the third floor, near which space 

 for a commodious stock-room was provided. To carry the heavy 

 load of the Miehle Cylinder Press and Automatic Paper Cutter a 

 room in the south end of the ground floor was selected for this por- 

 tion of the new equipment. In addition to the cylinder press and 

 paper cutter, there have been installed in the printing shop a book 

 sewing machine, stitcher, and motors for all machinery, including two 

 motors for the platen presses. 



Owing to constant demand from visitors, a restaurant has been 

 opened on the ground floor and the patronage thus far bestowed 

 seems to justify this convenience. 



Income and Maintenance. — The budget approved by the Board of 

 Trustees authorized the sum of $290,786.00 for the maintenance of 

 the Museum for the year 1921. The actual income received during 



