LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



Report of Assistant Secretary. 



FacinfT page 



1. Unit drawers 23 



Fig. 1. Storage drawer. 



2. Exhibition drawer with glass front. 



2'and 3. Standard forms of cases used in the National Museum 24 



Fig, 1. Pier case. 



2. Alcove case. 



3. Table case (upright). 



3a. Table case (upright), half size. 



4. Table case (sloping). 



4a. Table case (sloping), half size. 



5. Table case (flat). 



6. Table case (Gray pattern), storage base. 



7. Table case (Gray pattern), glazed base. 



8. Kensington case (Gray pattern). 



9. Unit table. 



9a. Unit table (half size). 

 9b. Unit table (quarter size). 



10. Base tables. 



10a. Base tables (dwarf size). 



11. Floor screen. 

 11a. Arch screen. 



12. Table screen. 



13. Slide-screen case. 



13a. Slide-screen case (half size). 



14. Door- screen case. 



15. Ca.se-top screen. 



16. Half column (for wing frames). 



17. Glass screen (sloping). 



18. Glass screen (upright). 



19. Standard bookcase. 



20. Standard shelf stack. 



21. Standard pigeonhole stack. 



22. Standard card-catalogue drawer. 



23. Unit drawers. 



24. Unit boxes (glazed), standard. 



25. "SVing frames (standard). 



4. Case for paleontological specimens, with suspended door 24 



5. Case of plate glass, w ith moldings reduced to minimum of possibility 24 



6. Bracket supports 24 



7. Sliding strips to support unit drawers in unit table cases 26 



Fig. 1. Metal runners. 

 2. Grooved strip-?. 

 ? Triangular strips. 



8. Details of construction of unit drawer 28 



Fig. 1 Triangular section of unit drawer. 



2. Corne section of fingered drawer, showing triangular strip on side. 



9. Details of construction of unit drawer with paper bottom 30 



Fig. 1. Pine stretcher and drawer (front view). 



2. Pine stretcher, showing paper tacked to drawer (back view). 



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