Appendix VIII. 



REPORT OF THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTI- 

 TUTION AND NATIONAL MUSEUM, LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPO- 

 SITION, ST. LOUIS, MO., 1004. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition held at St. Louis, Mo., from April 30 to December 1, 1904, 

 inclusive : 



An act of Congress approved June 28, 1902, provided for a Government 

 exhibit to be made by the several Executive Departments, bureaus, and other 

 organizations, including the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, 

 under the management of a Government board. The sum of $800,000 was 

 appropriated for this exhibit, and for buildings the sum of $450,000. 



The main Government building, containing a floor space of 102.000 square 

 teet. was located on an eminence at the east end of the Exposition grounds. 

 Adjoining it was a smaller building for the aquarium and other exhibits of 

 the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, and at a short distance 

 farther south was erected a large cage for the exhibits of the National Zoolog- 

 ical Park. A building and inclosure for the exhibit of the Life-Saving Service 

 were located in another part of the grounds. 



Congress subsequently ai)propriated the sum of .$100,000 for an exhibit of 

 the agricultural and experiment stations and colleges of mechanic arts. This 

 exhibit was placed in the education building. 



The principal embellishment of the interior of the Government building was 

 a reproduction of the Statue of Liberty, by Crawford, which surmounts the 

 dome of the Capitol. The replica was made in staff by Mr. U. S. J. Dunbar 

 from the original model in the rotunda of the National Museum. 



The space in the Government building assigned to the Smithsonian Institution 

 and National Museum comprised about 10,500 square feet, having a frontage on 

 the main aisle of a little over 200 feet and a depth of about 77 feet. It was 

 located on the south side of the building, beginning at the rotunda and adjoin- 

 ing the space of the Post-OfRce Department at the farther end. 



One end of this space was occupied by a specially designed pavilion 77 feet 

 long and 25 feet wide, containing the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution 

 proper (including the Hodgkins fund), the Bureau df International Exchanges, 

 and the Astrophysical Observatory, as well as a representation of the Children's 

 Room in the Smithsonian building at Washington. The remainder of the space 

 was occupied by the exhibit of the National Museum and that of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. 



In addition to the space in the Government building, an area outside, about 

 100 by 300 feet and lying 100 or 200 yards south of the building, as ali-eady 

 stated, was assigned to the oxhil)it of the National Zoological Park, consisting 

 of a large flying cage for birds. 



A large coelostat, which constituted a part of the exhibit of the Astrophysical 

 Observatory, was also placed outside the Government building, about 30 feet 

 south, opposite the east end of the Smithsonian space, a brick pier being erected 

 as a foundation. 



The allotment of funds to the Institution and Museum from the appropriation 

 for a Government exhibit was $110,000. 

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