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Department of Botany. — Very little expense has been called for 

 in the Department of Botany, the original installation seeming to 

 have met all requirements. 



Department of Industrial Arts. — Hall 33 has been opened in this 

 Department and devoted to ceramics, while Halls 30 and 31, textiles, 

 have been entirely re-installed. In these three halls, and in 32, 

 thirty-four new cases have been fitted, and eighteen new bases placed. 

 One hundred and seven frames for the tapestry collection have been 

 provided and hung in Hall 30 and in Lecture Hall. 



Division of Transportation. — Many models have been re-covered, 

 re-bronzed, and re-painted, and many repairs and improvements 

 made in Halls 46 to 53 inclusive. Boat Hall and the Burden-Bearer 

 suite have been re-arranged, cases and bases re-painted, new glass put 

 in, new railings constructed, and a general re-arrangement of all of 

 the material contained therein. 



Columbus Memorial. — Many alterations and re-arrangements 

 have been made in Halls 8 and g. The pictures have been re-hung 

 and much of the material which was rather hurriedly placed in posi- 

 tion has been cared for and put in a more satisfactory condition. 



Lecture Hall — Has been re-fitted as an audience room, furnished 

 with a movable platform, rear and side doors, roof and base ventilat- 

 ors, stereopticon stand, two hundred new chairs, etc. 



The Library — Has been enclosed with doors, tables in the read- 

 ing-room have been partitioned and re-painted, and pictures hung 

 therein, and railing and new filing cases constructed in the office of 

 the Librarian. 



Memorial Rotunda. — The model of the Quadriga has been con- 

 structed and placed in position. All of the models have been 

 re-painted, and a passage from east to west and north and south 

 through the collections has been provided by means of iron railings.. 



The above is a very brief, imperfect synopsis of the general work 

 of the Museum during the year, and while indicating, in a measure, 

 the amount of work performed, gives necessarily a very inadequate 

 idea of it. 



Fire and Police Patrol. — While there has been a sharp reduc- 

 tion in the cost of the protection of the building and its contents, 

 there has been a marked increase in the efficiency of the service. 

 The Fire Department is provided with a chemical carriage of the 

 capacity of fifty-five gallons; two hose jumpers with five hundred feet 

 of hose on each machine; forty-two hand chemicals, stationed in dif- 

 ferent parts of the building; one hundred and forty-eight pails of 

 water with automatic lids, etc., stationed inside the Building, and one. 



