ao FiEi.h Coi.UMHiAN Mr- Uh*oris, W, 



im step. i he lut.n iiu!iu'ct ut spii mii ii tU.< s juintcii tor 

 i. nt iicpnrtincnts hns luvn ns IoIUiwh: l)c|>artincn( of Anthrop- 

 ology. 651; DcparttncMit of (iroloRy, i.zr,^ nir>.irtmcnt of llistor)-, 

 140: Department of IiultiHtrial Arts, i. n of Steam Trans- 

 portation, 2b2. department of Zoolof^y, MH, also much general work. 

 The announcements for lecture courses and all of the blank forms 

 used in the Museum are now issued from the Museum printing office. 



ExrnsiTioN Rkcords. — By order of the ICxecutive Committee, 

 the room of that Committee was offered to and accepted by the 

 World's Columbian ICxposition for the purpose of storing and index- 

 ing the papers ami recorcls of the I-lxposition, preparing final reports, 

 etc. Two tire- proof vaults were constructed by the Ivxpo.sition under 

 the rooms of the Executive Committee, and the adjoining room. No. 

 19. entrance to which is accomplished by means of a stairway leading 

 from the Executive Committee room. In these vaults have been 

 stored the records and correspondence and vouchers and papers gen- 

 erally of the Exposition, of which the Museum, it is understood, is to 

 eventually become the custodian. 



Warehouse and Workshop. — The purchase of a warehouse and 

 workshop, by order of the ICxecutive Committee, which building is 

 locatc<l on the corner of Fifty sixth Street and Jefferson Avenue, has 

 provided the institution with ample room for storage purposes and 

 with rooms for carpentry, modeling and plaster work, and for taxi- 

 derniy. three kinds of labor which could not be permitted within the 

 Museum building as at present arranged. The small rooms, in what 

 may be termed, the second galleries of the Courts, which it was 

 thought might be utilized for these purposes, have by force of cir- 

 cumstances been pre-empted by the Curators of Botany, Zoology and 

 Ornithology for laboratories, by the poisoning and disinfecting labor- 

 ator^■. by the guards and by the departments of printing and photog- 

 raphy. These twelve rooms are already inadeipiate for the purposes 

 to which they arc devote*!, and more room for workin:: is alreadv one 

 of the great needs of the Museum. 



Li<-iM NM' Hkvi -The most important permanent improve- 

 ments during the past year have l»een the construction of steam 

 heating and electric light plants, which systems are installed in 

 a new boiler house at the west of the building, and have given the 

 greatest satisfaction in operation. The steam plant has three 100 H. 

 P. boilers. 12,000 feet of steam pipe an<l 70 radiators. The electric 

 light plant has a capacity of forty i.2«H)-candle power arc lamps. The 

 problem of heating the immense area within the Museum walls was 



f|i.if r< i!uir»il the most serious consirlrration. It was fourid 



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