ORGANIZATION OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 7 



nations, thirty in number, wliich participated in the exhibition at Phil- 

 adelphia. 



9. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing and 

 commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia Exhibition and subsequently. 



10. The material received, in exchange for duplicate specimens, from 

 the museums of Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and from numerous 

 institutions and collectors in i!?^orth and South America. 



VIII. 



As necessary adjuncts to the work of the Museum, a working library, 

 a chemical laboratory, a photographic establishment, a workshop for 

 taxidermy, modeling, and the preparation of skeletons, and several 

 smaller workshops are carried on as a part of the general work of admin- 

 istration. 



IX. 



The scientific results of the labors of the officers of the Museum, 

 and of investigations upon the collections belonging to it, are to be 

 found for the most part in the following works : 

 Bulletin of the United States National Museum; the 

 Proceedings of the United States National Museum; the 

 Reports of the Smithsonian Institution; the 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ; the 

 Smithsonian Contributions to Knoicledge ; the 



Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution ; and in the 

 Reports of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries; and the 

 Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission ; 



also occasionally in other scientific reports of other scientific departments 

 of the government. 



FUNCTION AND AllfIS OF THE MUSEUM. 



X. 



The collections in the National Museum are intended to exhibit the 

 natural and industrial resources, primardy of the United States, and 

 secondarily of those of the remainder of the world, for purposes of com- 

 parison. 



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The activity of the Museum is exerted in three directions : 



(a) The permanent preservation of objects already in its possession. 



(b) The acquisition of new material. 



(c) The utilization of material already in its possession, by its exhibi- 

 tion in the most instructive manner, and by the prosecution of and pub- 

 lication of scientific researches for which it forms the basis; by the dis- 

 tribution of properly-labeled duplicates of materials to colleges and other 

 educational institutions. 



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