34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



NEW MUSEUM BUILDING. 



A bill appropriating the sum of $250,000 for an additional Museum 

 building, introduced by Senator Morrill in the first session of the Fifty- 

 fourtli Congress, was taken up in regular course on January 23, 1897, 

 but was passed over without action. 



TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 



The sum of $14,500 was allotted to the Smithsonian Institution and 

 National Museum from the amount appropriated by Congress (1130,000) 

 for an exhibit of the various Governmental departments at the Tennes- 

 see Centennial Exposition, to be held in Nashville from May 1 to Octo- 

 ber 31, 1897. The amount allotted to the Museum was afterwards 

 slightly increased. Dr. F. W. True was designated representative for 

 the Institution and Museum on the Government board of management. 

 Mr. W. V. Cox represents Dr. True at Nashville, and has also been 

 appointed secretary of the Government board. 



An extended account of the participation of the Institution and 

 Museum in *he Exposition will be presented in the next annual report. 



TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. 



An appropriation of $200,000 has been made by Congress for a Gov- 

 ernment exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi and International Expositicm 

 at Omaha, Nebraska. This exposition will open in June, 1898, and 

 continue for five months. 



INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT PARIS. 



An invitation to participate in the International Exposition to be 

 held in Paris in 1900 has been extended to the United States by the 

 French Republic, and an appropriation of $25,000 has been made by 

 Congress to cover preliminary expenses in securing appropriate space 

 for the exhibits from this country. 



NECROLOGY. 



In another part of this Eeport will be found an extended account of 

 the life and work of the late Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, who died on September 6, 1896. A 

 memorial meeting was held in the lecture hall of the Museum on Feb- 

 ruary G, 1897, under the auspices of the Joint Commission of Scientific 

 Societies and in cooperation with the patriotic and historical societies 

 of Washington. 



Mr. W. C. Winlock, honorary curator of the section of physical 

 ai)paratus in the National Museum, died at Bay Head, New Jersey, on 

 September 20. 



