Appendix VIII. 



REPORT OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTI- 

 TUTION AND NATIONAL MUSEUM, PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, 

 BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 1901. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion, held at Buffalo, N. Y., from May 1, 1901, to November 2, 1901, incliisive: 



Participation in this exposition by the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum 

 was provided for in the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1899, appropriating the sum 

 of $200,000 for a Government building and the sum of $300,000 for a Government 

 exhibit. Of the latter sum $50,000 was allotted to the Institution and INIuseum, and 

 $2,500 was transferred from the allotment of the Interior Department for the joint 

 preparation of a restoration of the gigantic extinct American reptile known as Tri- 

 ceratops. Subsequently the Smithsonian allotment was assessed $1,960.79 for a gen- 

 eral exhibit from the Philippine Islands to be prepared under the supervision of a 

 special committee of Government board, and $200 was transferred to the allotment 

 of the War Department. The net Smithsonian allotment was, therefore, $50,339.21. 



All the dependencies of the Institution were represented by separate displays 

 except the Bureau of American Ethnologj', which cooperated with the Department 

 of Anthropology in the National Museum. 



The space in the Government ])uilding assigned to tlie Institution and INIuseum was 

 at the northwest corner and comprised about 7,500 square feet, having a frontage on 

 the main aisle of about 133 feet and a deptli of 56 feet. 



The act of Congress providing for the Government exhibit stipulated that it should 

 comprise "such articles and material as illustrate the function and administrative 

 faculty of the Government in time of peace and * * * tending to demonstrate 

 the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people." 

 Following out the spirit of the law, the exliibits of the Institution and INIuseum were 

 planned to show their scope and methods of work, and at the same time to indicate 

 tlu'ir resources. 



In the case of the National Museum such topics were chosen for illustration as 

 were germane to the central idea of the exposition, namely, a display of the prod- 

 ucts of nature and the works of man in the Western Hemisphere. The Museum on 

 this occasion, as previously, prepared much larger exhibits than the other bureaus 

 of the Institution, on accoui^t of its peculiar functions and resources which fit it to 

 participate extensively in enterprises of this kind. The disjjlays of the other bureaus 

 were necessarily limited, for the most part, to such pictures, models, and publications 

 as would serve to indicate the material with which and the conditions under which 

 their work is carried on, and some of the results of their activities. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PROPER. 



The work of the Smithsonian Institution covers fields more varied than is gener- 

 ally supposed. It may be a surprise to many to know that by the Congressional act 

 of its foundation it is devoted primarily to art and only secondarily to science. One 

 of its interests, which has not hitherto been presented in a temporary exposition, is 

 the fostering of art. To impress on the minds of the i)ublic the fact that this is a 

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