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PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 3 



9. The industrial collections given by numerous manufacturing and 

 commercial houses of Europe and America, at the time of the Philadel- 

 phia Exhibition and subsequently. 



, 10. The material received, in exchange for duplicate specimens, from 

 the museums of Europe, Asia, and Australasia, and from numerous in- 

 stitutions and collectors in North and South America. 



IV. 



ADJUNCTS As necessary adjuncts to the work of the Museum, a 



TO 



ADMiNisTUATioN. worklug library, a chemical laboratory, a photographic 

 establishment, a workshop for taxidermy, modeling, and the prepara- 

 tion of skeletons, and several smaller workshops are carried on as a 

 part of the general work of administration. 



V. 



PUBLICATIONS Thc scicutific results of the labors of the officers of the 



OF THE 



MUSEUM. Museum, and of investigations upon the collections belonging 

 to it, are to be found for the most part in the following works : 



Bulletin of the United States National Museum; 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum ; 



Reports of the Smithsonian Institution ; 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ; 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge ; 



Reports of the Bureau of Ethnologg of the Smithsonian Institution ; 



Reports of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries ; 



Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission ; 

 also occasionally in other scientific reports of other scientitic depart- 

 ments of the government. 



VI. 



OBJECTS The collections in the National Museum are intended 



METHODS OF woKK. to cxliiblt thc uatural and industrial resources, primarily 

 of the United States, and secondarily of those of the remainder of the 

 world, for purposes of comparison. 



The activity of the Museum is exerted in three directions : 



(«) The permanent preservation of objects already in its possession. 



(b) The acquisition of new material. 



(c) The utilization of material already in its possession, by its exhibi- 

 tion in the most instructive manner, and by the prosecution of and pub- 

 lication of scientific researches for which it forms the basis ; by the dis- 

 tribution of properly-labeled duplicates of materials to colleges and other 

 educational institutions. 



The i^reservation of material is accomj)lished by means of the vigilance 

 of the curators and the skill of the preparators. 



New material is acquired («) in accordance with law, from the various 

 government surveys and exi^editions ; (&) by gift from individuals, from 

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