The Smithsonian Institution 



atural resources of the country, as wc ! 

 lie education." 



Baird, as Exhibition representative of the Instit 

 in the Report of the same year as follows : 



vill, however, be readily understood that the Smitl 



sonian Building will be entirely inadequate to accommoda 



lection on its return from Philadelphia, especially ; 



>w it is overcrowded and packed from top to botto 



nds of boxes, for the proper exhibition of the coj 



no space or opportunity at the presei 



* action at an early day will 1 



per provision for th 



the mat 



^all be equa 



:s educational advai 



n in the world. 



collections m; the Governme! 



opriations will plemented by tl 



donation of . ican and foreign exhibitors, a vei 



large pr , which will be placed at the disposal of tfe 



United Government." 



The anticipations of Henry and Baird were fully met. i 

 the Report for the Centennial year Professor Baird wrote : 



\t no period in the history of the National Museum 

 the time when it was organized to the present, has the i* 

 ise been so great as during the year 1876."' 



After referring to the ac s from the governme i 



s, he remarks : 



n addition, howev s of increase t 



'i during the years 1876, mentioned 



>ther presented it iiaps even greate 



.YIOTAT ::l>KH>i: >ft ' 



"SmifT page 38. 







