^0 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Two mahogany table screens; 11 pine, screens; 79 mahogany label frames; l03 

 oak, ash, cherry, and pine label frames; 7 pine picture frames; 364 stands for speci- 

 mens; 8 mahogany table tops; 1 walnut table top; 5piue table tops; 1 piue, upright 

 desk, for office work; 1,729 pine trays, for specimens, stored in cases; 358 drawers, 

 cherry, poplar, and piue, for cases; 90 unit boxes, for exhibition cases; 48 costume 

 boxes; 23 pine diaphragms, for cases; 78 walnut and pine bases, for specimens; 2,943 

 blocks, for the exhibition of minerals; 4 pine card catalogue boxes; 7 tank boxes, 

 for receivers for specimens; 238 boxes for storing and shipjiing specimens; 433 

 shelves, for cases, etc. ; 180 zinc partitions, for hies cases ; 184 piue partitions, for 

 files cases; 433 shelves, for cases; 11 brackets, for exhibition purposes; 200 tin label 

 holders; 1 case for uegatives, photographer's department; 6 presses, for specimens, 

 department of botany. 



(Screens, frames, draAvers, trays, bases, etc., extended, refitted, reglazed, painted, 

 and otherwise repaired, during the year 1890-'91 : 



One hundred and sixteen wing frames, glared and fitted with hiuges ; 2 wall- 

 screens extended ; 67 ash screens repaired ; 4 pine screens repaired; 1,193 pine trays 

 fitted in cases; 3.5 piue trays altered ; 110 unit boxes stained; 78 bases painted; 33 

 diaphragms for cases, painted; 52 costume boxes altered, stained, and glazed; 3,362 

 blocks painted; 101 windows reglazed. 



HEATING AND LIGHTING. 



The appropriation for heating- and lighting, 1891, is 112,000. Fol- 

 lowing are the disbursements: 



For salaries or compensation, |.5,084.91; coal and wood, $2,760.90; 

 gas, $1,233.84; electric supplies, $905.68; electric work, $7.50; tele- 

 phones, $604.40; rental of call boxes, $100; heating supplies, $448.95; 

 traveling expenses, $5.42, making a total of $11,157.66, and leaving on 

 hand a balance of $842.34 to meet outstanding liabilities. 



In addition to the items mentioned in the detailed list, much work 

 of a general nature has been accomplished, and while the routine has 

 not differed materially from that of former years, the total amount ex- 

 pended for services is somewhat less than that of last year. 



Frequent repairs in the large flat roof of the Museum building have 

 been necessary, and pending the anticipated laying of a granolithic 

 pavement, the floors have been patched in many places ; the trenches 

 beneath the Museum have been thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed 

 and the electric wires therein put in order, so far as possible; the 

 north balcony has been painted and the walls calcimined, and in the 

 rooms adjacent to the eastern entrance, and in the balcony and stair- 

 way above them, the walls have been calcimined and the woodwork 

 painted. 



The moving of the heavy exhibits, which occasionally becomes neces- 

 sary in order to place suitably in the series the valuable o])jects which 

 from time to time come into possession of the Museum, is an important 

 feature in the duty of the force. The articles, many of them of great 

 weight, must be handled with skill in order to prevent injury to them- 

 selves, to other objects, or to the building. The superintendent has 

 I)laced rollers under the large cases, which serve to remove them 

 from any damjiness of the floor, and allow them to be moved with all 



