830 The Smithsonian Institution 



Smithsonian Library will be immeasurably increased, every 

 volume being rendered immediately available, instead of 

 being piled in compulsory disorder upon the floors, in the 

 absence, for years past, of any shelves to arrange and classify 

 them. And the conjunction of the great library of reference 

 in the reading-room of the public library adjoining will 

 enable all students, in whatever department of science, or 

 literature, or art, to prosecute their investigations with 

 every facility close at hand. The Smithsonian Institution 

 will for the first time be enabled to secure for its rich col- 

 lections in scientific knowledge a maximum benefit to the 

 world of readers who will resort to it for instruction in 

 years that are to come. 



