APPENDIX 1 

 REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the condi- 

 tion and operations of the United States National Museum for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1930 : 



The total appropriations for tlie maintenance of the National Mu- 

 seum for this period amounted to $702,514, an increase of $14,490 over 

 the appropriations for the year 1929. Of this amount $9,500 pro- 

 vided salaries for five additional positions on the staff, namely, an 

 assistant curator of moUusks, an additional clerk in the administra- 

 tive office, and three sergeants of the watch. This assistance in per- 

 sonnel has very definite value in the administration of the various 

 units concerned and brings added efticiency to the organization as 

 a whole. 



A small sum of the increase indicated provided efficiency promo- 

 tions for a number of trained mechanics who had not been cared 

 for properly when other clasi^es of employees had been promoted 

 previously. There was a further increase to provide for the con- 

 struction of a gallery to give additional space for study collections 

 in the vertebrate paleontological laboratory, where crowding had 

 become serious. The construction for this is of the same general 

 type as that used for a similar gallery in the National Herbarium. 



The second deficiency bill for 1930 contained an item of $3,500 

 under repairs and alterations of buildings, available in the fiscal 

 years 1930 and 1931, for the remodelling of a comfort room in the 

 Arts and Industries Building. As this bill became law on July 

 3, 1930, after the close of the fiscal year here under report, these 

 funds accordingly will be used in the fiscal year 1931, and a state- 

 ment on them will be made in the report for that year. 



Growth in personnel in the National Museum has progressed 

 reasonably, but further additions are required in a number of the 

 administrative units before the staff can be considered properly de- 

 veloped to enable it to function as it should. There are several 

 major groups of animals wliere systematic workers of high type are 

 needed as curators to carry on necessary research that the Museum 

 may be able to assist the public who desire information concerning 

 the creatures in question. Additional assistance in tlie scientific 

 grades is also required in some of the m;ij(»r groups whoie the volume 



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