

50 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Owing to the already crowded condition of the exhibition halls it is 

 the present intention to hold the strictly metallurgical portion of the 

 exhibit within its present limits, while the remaining portions will be 

 expanded indefinitely. This means a general rearrangement of the 

 crude materials, excepting those portions needed to illustrate each 

 metallurgical process. It is now expected that this work of rearrange- 

 ment will be begun as soon as the contemplated new floor in the south- 

 west court shall be laid. It is therefore not impossible that the work 

 will be well under way by the time this paper shall appear in print. 



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