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upon gifts and exchanges, but even these means combined with the purchase 
fund are not nearly sufficient to satisfy the important demands in this direction. 
In conjunction with the Institution, the Museum is participating extensively 
in the government exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifie Exposition at Seattle, 
which opened on June 1 and will close on October 16. The general subject 
which, in accordance with the law, the Institution and Museum were directed 
to illustrate is that part of the national history of the United States which re- 
lates to Alaska, the Philippine Islands, and that section of the country lying 
west of the Rocky Mountains. Samoa and Guam have also been included. The 
collections assembled for this purpose, obtained partly from original sources 
and in part selected from the Museum exhibits, consist of models, pictures, and 
actual objects, representing the peoples, conditions, etc., from prehistoric to 
modern times. The exhibit is interesting and instructive and has been attrac- 
tively arranged. 
The Museum, in conjunction with the Bureau of American Ethnology, also 
sent to the International Photographic Exhibition at Dresden, Germany, a 
series of enlarged photographic prints and transparencies covering a variety of 
subjects, but designed to illustrate the perfection to which the art of photog- 
raphy has attained in this country in the portrayal of scientific subjects. 
Respectfully submitted. 
RICHARD RATHBUN, 
Assistant Secretary in charge of U. S. National Museum. 
Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
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