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The average amount paid this year on the monthly roll for furniture 

 and fixtures is $1,472.02, The greatest number of employes in anyone 

 month is 33; the smallest, 20 ; the average, 27. The highest salary is 

 $150, paid to the Engineer of Property ; the lowest pay on this roll, to 

 a cleaner of glass, is $30 ; the average being $54.18. 



STANDARD CASES AND OTHER MUSEUM FURNITURE. 



Among the various items of standard museum furniture there are 

 none, perhaps, that fill the purpose for which they were designed more 

 satisfactorily than the unit-tables, storage cases and drawers for the 

 storage of specimens. 



The standard round columns, which support forty-eight wing-frames, 

 are of great utility where space is limited, since they admit of the dis- 

 play of a large superficial area (480 square feet) of drawings and other 

 illustrations upon 35 square feet of floor space. 



These facts seem to be recognized, as we have frequent requests from 

 persons interested in museum administration in this and other coun- 

 tries for drawings of these styles of cases. To comply with such 

 requests, cyanotypes and specifications showing the details of construc- 

 tion have been prepared by Mr. J. E. Watkins, the engineer of prop- 

 erty, for transmission to applicants. 



The following is a detailed list of cases, bases, frames, stands, appa- 

 ratus, general appliances, fittings, etc., made or furnished during the 

 year by persons outside the Museum : 



Designs and drawings tor cases $235. 00 



10 mahogany double Liverpool cases 2, 300. 00 



20 mahogany unit -tables 2, f>00. 00 



It) mahogany dwarf unit-tables 1,200. 00 



1 addition to wall-case, E. S. Range 335. 00 



1 pair mahogany bases for Liverpool cases 170. 00 



1 mahogany Kensington case, Gray pattern 82.24 



1 mahogany shade for Liverpool ease f>4. ">0 



2 insect cabinets, twentj drawers eacb 250. 00 



12 pine card catalogue cases 234.00 



5 pine standard book-cases 1 p,». ;,(i 



150 mahogany ease-beading frames 75. 00 



25 mahogany double- folding screens 08. ?."> 



2 mahogany quarter unit-tables 84. 00 



30 pine doable unit -boxes hi. 00 



2 tin Btorage eases i tor small mammals) 72.50 



1 pine Btorage ease (tor drawings) 49.85 



Re-enforcing ami altering cm it-table and slide-screen eases 45.00 



1 mahogany ease for Japanese Kago 228. ?."> 



I mahogany ease for elephant 1117. 00 



1 mahogany ease for opossum group 95.00 



1 mahogany ease for prairie-dog group 80. 00 



1 mahogany case for cave-bear skeleton 70. 00 



1 mahogany case for horn-bill group , r ):!. 00 



1 frame, for metal-covei ed ease 45. 00 



1 fire-proof safe for disbursing clerk 412. 12 



