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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  in 
  clerical 
  or 
  routine 
  work, 
  such 
  as 
  clerks, 
  stenographers, 
  book- 
  

   keepers, 
  messengers, 
  and 
  skilled 
  laborers, 
  and 
  afterwards 
  to 
  be 
  ex- 
  

   tended 
  to 
  employees 
  engaged 
  in 
  professional, 
  scientific, 
  technical, 
  

   administrative, 
  or 
  executive 
  work, 
  or 
  any 
  other 
  work 
  involving 
  

   for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  original 
  or 
  constructive 
  effort. 
  This 
  was 
  inaugu- 
  

   rated 
  by 
  a 
  survey 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  positions 
  existing 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  on 
  

   November 
  15, 
  1921, 
  carefully 
  prepared 
  and 
  submitted 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  

   of 
  Efficiency. 
  An 
  initial 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  efficiency 
  of 
  each 
  employee 
  

   was 
  made 
  dating 
  May 
  15, 
  1922, 
  and 
  similar 
  reports 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  made 
  

   every 
  six 
  months 
  hereafter. 
  The 
  installation 
  of 
  this 
  system 
  added 
  

   considerably 
  to 
  the 
  duties 
  of 
  the 
  officials 
  of 
  the 
  Museum. 
  

  

  The 
  changing 
  of 
  the 
  system 
  of 
  keeping 
  Government 
  accounts, 
  to 
  

   make 
  the 
  items 
  of 
  expenditure 
  identical 
  in 
  all 
  Government 
  offices, 
  

   whether 
  large 
  or 
  small, 
  likewise, 
  temporarily 
  at 
  least, 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  

   work 
  this 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  administrative 
  office. 
  Efforts 
  were 
  also 
  made 
  

   toward 
  unifying 
  other 
  business 
  methods 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  offices 
  

   generally, 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  handling 
  of 
  supplies, 
  traffic 
  matters, 
  etc. 
  

  

  BUILDINGS 
  AND 
  EQUIPMENT. 
  

  

  The 
  National 
  Museum 
  completely 
  occupies 
  two 
  large 
  and 
  two 
  small 
  

   buildings, 
  besides 
  considerable 
  space 
  in 
  two 
  other 
  structures. 
  The 
  

   combined 
  floor 
  space 
  is 
  approximately 
  670,000 
  square 
  feet. 
  To 
  keep 
  

   these 
  buildings 
  in 
  repair 
  requires 
  all 
  the 
  available 
  appropriation, 
  

   so 
  that 
  radical 
  changes 
  in 
  arrangements, 
  however 
  much 
  needed, 
  are 
  

   almost 
  impossible. 
  This 
  year 
  by 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  one 
  partition 
  and 
  

   the 
  erection 
  of 
  another, 
  two 
  small 
  exhibition 
  halls 
  were 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  

   floor 
  space 
  for 
  the 
  display 
  of 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Arts 
  and 
  Industries 
  

   Building, 
  though 
  the 
  storage 
  space 
  was 
  correspondingly 
  diminished. 
  

   Other 
  repairs 
  consisted, 
  as 
  usual, 
  of 
  repainting 
  of 
  walls 
  and 
  ceilings 
  

   in 
  places 
  where 
  most 
  needed, 
  the 
  replacing 
  of 
  certain 
  worn-out 
  floors, 
  

   and 
  repairs 
  to 
  roofs, 
  gutters, 
  etc. 
  The 
  hot-water 
  heating 
  system 
  was 
  

   extended 
  to 
  the 
  concrete 
  building 
  in 
  the 
  east 
  court 
  of 
  the 
  Natural 
  

   History 
  Building, 
  replacing 
  the 
  temporary 
  heating 
  arrangements 
  

   installed 
  there 
  when 
  the 
  structure 
  was 
  erected 
  during 
  the 
  World 
  War. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Building 
  a 
  thorough 
  investigation 
  was 
  

   made 
  of 
  the 
  dome 
  and 
  the 
  great 
  piers 
  supporting 
  it. 
  The 
  slight 
  

   displacement 
  of 
  the 
  stone 
  arches 
  which 
  span 
  the 
  piers, 
  the 
  opening 
  

   of 
  joints 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  balustrades 
  under 
  these 
  arches 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   fourth-story 
  floor 
  at 
  the 
  ends 
  of 
  the 
  piers, 
  have 
  been 
  brought 
  about 
  

   by 
  a 
  movement 
  at 
  the 
  upper 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  piers, 
  doubtless 
  caused 
  by 
  the 
  

   eccentric 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  weight 
  of 
  the 
  dome. 
  The 
  piers 
  are 
  

   fully 
  braced 
  by 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  steel 
  beams 
  to 
  the 
  walls 
  of 
  the 
  

   building 
  and, 
  since 
  the 
  walls 
  are 
  successfully 
  resisting 
  the 
  pressure 
  

  

  