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building, at Topeka, in rooms on the ground floor. It has three 

 connecting rooms, used for office, library, and museum. 



The museum has been greatly increased by the gift of the state 

 mineral display erected at the St. Louis Exposition, and given suit- 

 able cases to hold this large amount of material. It thus has the 

 finest economic collection of the Kansas mineral industries in the 

 state — an exhibit which received two gold medals, twenty-two silver 

 medals, and fourteen bronze medals. 



