REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 23 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
GREENOUGH STATUE OF WASHINGTON. 
The Greenough statue of Washington, which was transferred to the 
custody of the Institution by joint resolution of Congress of May 22, 
1908, introduced by Representative Mann, was removed from the 
plaza east of the Capitol in November, 1908, and has been installed 
in the west hall of the Smithsonian building. 
MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL. 
Under date of April 30, 1909, the president-general of the National 
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution communicated 
with the President, offering to place at the disposal of the Smith- 
sonian Institution the use of the auditorium in Memorial Continental 
Hall. The President transmitted this offer to the Secretary of the 
Institution, and its thanks were expressed in a statement that the 
needs of the Institution at present are of a special nature and require 
particularly facilities for laboratory and research work, for which 
Continental Hall is not well adapted, but should there be need in the 
future for additional space for lecture purposes and the like, the 
Institution would be glad to avail itself of the courteous proposal of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
The operations of the National Museum are discussed in detail by 
the assistant secretary in the appendix to this report and also in a 
separate volume, and need not therefore be fully treated here. 
It was expected that the new building would be ready for occu- 
pancy before June 30, but delayed contracts and other circumstances 
prevented its completion. The entire stonework of the outer walls 
was, however, finished, as were also the roofs and skylights of the 
building. Much progress was made in the interior and it is expected 
that some of the halls and workrooms will be ready for use early in 
the autumn. A large part of the first and second floors and of the 
basement were utilized in the autumn of 1908 for the meetings and 
exhibition halls of the Sixth International Tuberculosis Congress, 
an appropriation having been made by the Government for the erec- 
tion of necessary partitions and other fittings. 
It was found to be in the interest of economy to install in the new 
building a central heating and electrical plant of sufficient capacity 
to serve the needs of the older buildings as well, the pipes and wires 
to be carried through a small connecting tunnel. 
Over 250,000 specimens were added to the Museum collections dur- 
ing the year, about 200,000 of them pertaining to biology and the re- 
mainder to geology and anthropology. One of the most important 
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