1018 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



May 26, 1886 House. 



Mr. H. LIBBKY presented a petition of parties prominent in rail- 

 road circles, asking an appropriation for the organization of the sec- 

 tion of steam transportation in the United States National Museum. 



Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM ESTIMATES. 



December 7, 1885 House. 



Estimates for 1887. 



For the erection of a fire-proof building for storing the alcoholic 

 collections of the National Museum. $15.000. 



NOTE. The safety of the interior of the National Museum and the Smithsonian 

 building is endangered by the large number of alcoholic specimens kept therein, and 

 it i.s considered by public museums, both at home and abroad, very important to 

 have a separate building for their reception and preservation. There are at present 

 no suitable accommodations for these collections. 



For the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections 

 received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Gov- 

 ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation 

 of all necessary employees, $125,000. 



For expense of heating, lighting, electrical and telephonic service 

 for the National Museum, $15,000. 



For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition and 

 safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including 

 salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $40,000. 



For asphalt pavement on the west side of the National Museum 

 and between the Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, $2,500. 



To refund the duty paid by Semon Bache & Co. , of New York, 

 upon glass, from imported stock, furnished to the National Museum 

 and the New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati expositions for exhi- 

 bition cases, $3,562.56. 

 February 9, 1886 House. 



Deficiency estimates for 1886, etc. 



To meet expenses of receiving, packing, transporting to the National 

 Museum in Washington, and of installing or storing such new speci- 

 mens and collections as may be presented to the United States at the 

 North, Central, and South American Exposition held in New Orleans, 

 La., in 1885-86, to be available for the fiscal year. 1886-87, and to 

 complete the installation of the collections received in 1885 from the 

 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, $2,500. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 

 Washington, D. C., January 16, 1886. 



SIR: I respectfully ask that the inclosed estimate for an immediate deficiency 

 appropriation be presented to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 

 Representatives. 



