Figure i. — Early View oi in l mud States National Misum, known for the last quarter of a century 

 as the Arts and Industries building. Completed in 1881, it housed the Division of Medical .Sciences from its 

 establishment in 18H1 as a Section of Materia Medica to the time of the writing of this paper. While the 

 medical collection rem. lined in the Department of Arts and Industries, by the end of June 1912 practically 

 all other collections belonging to the fields of natural history and anthropology were transferred to the then 

 new Natural I listory building. 



