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AS has already been explained, tUe new museum is not intended 

 simdy for the exhibition of objects of natural history, the contro Img 

 iZ be ng rather that of an ethnological exhibit, espemlly to mclude 

 ilustrattons of the applications of objects belonging to the a,un,a , veg- 

 e ab e and mineral kingdoms, and the requirements or luxunes of man 

 To this J^,d the collections made by the Smithsonian Iust.tnt,on and the 

 Un ted Stltes Fish Commission, for exhibition at the Centenmal Expo- 

 sitTou of 1870, and the Berlin International Fishery Expositmn of 1.80, 

 come admirably into play, and constitute thebasis of the matenal.wh.ch, 

 ho-.™ver, has been largely increased from other sources. 



If is nmnosed to devote one-fonrth of the space, about 25,001) square 

 feet, ran mnstration of the mineral resources, in the form of budd.ng 

 stones ores, combustibles, clays, pigments, &c. 



Another fourth of the budding will be taken up by dlustrations of 

 thf anll::^ industries, with representatives of the o"^^^'^^^'^^^ 

 or papier-mache casts, of the principal animals used for food oi otheT 

 iroseTby man, together with all the various apparatus by which 

 the are pursued, captured, and ntdized ; then the results of the man.p- 

 da ioTmid Uso illustratiolis of the methods by which animals are pro- 

 tect^ i. multiplied; this conttning itself principally to an exhibition in 

 rnnection witl the' artittcial propagation of fishes and other aquatic 



"Tportion of the building wdl be filled by the display of otbe-l-ial 

 objects, including the materm ^eMca, foods, paints, and djes of all 



"trth'e purely ethnological collections, or such as relate to the savage 

 or semi cWlized races of modern times, space will be provided tor in 

 this bi iUhnrand a small area assigned to the exhibition of mounted 

 m— and osteological specimens. Fuller details of arrangement 



will hf» reserved for the next report. 



The ~ion of the scope of the National Museum of course in- 

 vohes an enlarged force, and the engagement of several specialists t» 

 latcCge of their respective departments. This has been deferred 



""in vfew of the large number of cases required in this building-not 

 less throne thousa^ndin all-the selection of suitable I''- and mode 

 of construction has been a matter of great importance, and we have 

 ^corf nglv endeavored to obtain all possible information a. to methods 

 :^ : oL ement in foreign and home museums. Professor Agas - ^a^ 

 kindlv supplied working drawings of the newer cases of the Museum 

 0^0 LSc Zoologyl and the authorities of S-th Ke-ng^^^^^^^^^^ 

 the new British Museum, as well as those of the Eoya Muse mn oi 

 Dresdel and other establishments, have rendered similar facdit es 

 MiG Brown Goode, the curator of the museum, during Jbe per^d of 

 his action as commissioner to the BerUn International ^.^heiy Expos, 

 tton took occasion to visit all the principal museums in Germany, Italy, 



