12 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



technical, the shorter papers being assigned to the former and the larger 

 and more exhaustive works to the latter. Of the Proceedings twent}-- 

 three complete volumes have been issued and of the Bulletins fif t^-one 

 numbers. 



PRESENT CONDITION AND NEEDS OF THE MUSEUM. 



The National Museum now occupies the building erected for its use 

 in 1881, the greater part of the Smithsonian building, parts of three 

 detached buildings on the Mall, and several rented buildings south of 

 B street SW. The floor area represented, together with the general 

 use to which the several floors of the larger buildings and each of the 

 smaller buildings are devoted, is showni in the following table: 



Smithsonian building: ^ Square feet. 



Basement (mainly storage and heating jjlant) 11, 778 



Ground floor (mainly exhibition halls) 17, 372 



vSQCond floor (mainly workrooms) 6, 587 



Third floor (mainly exhibition) 10, 889 



Upper part of north tower (workrooms and storage ) 2, 617 



East end (oflices, shipping rooms, etc.) 2, 755 



51, 998 



Museum building: 



Ground floor (exhibition) 74, 209 



Gallery floor (mainly exhibition) 28, 986 



Central towers and pavilions (mainly workrooms, storage, offices, 



library, etc. ) 40, 293 



143,488 



Outside buildings: 



Smithsonian stable (taxidermist's workroom) 615 



Frame building on Smithsonian reservation (taxidermist's and 



one mechanical workshop ) 1 , 400 



Frame building on Armory square (storage of specimens) 7, 073 



Buildings at No. 431 Ninth street SW. (rented, storage of speci- 

 mens and property) 21, 129 



Building No. 309 to 313 Tenth street S^V. (rented, storage of 



specimens, prepara tors' and mechanical workshops) 0, 406 



Building No. 217 Seventh street SW. (rented, carpenter shops). 3, 655 

 Building in rear of 915 Virginia avenue SW. (rented, paint and 



glass shop) 2, 925 



43, 203 



Total space now occupied 238, 689 



The allotments of space by subj(^cts and ])y departments is as follows: 



By subjects: Square feet. 



Exhibition 112, 697 



Storage of reserve collections, scientific laboratories, and workrooms... 75,468 

 General and miscellaneous purposes, including mechanical workshops 

 and storage, heating plant, library, lecture hall, public comfort, 

 administrative offices, etc 50, 524 



Total 238, 689 



