26 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



BUILDING. The academy has built a ten-story class "A" income 

 building on the site of the old museum building on Market Street, and 

 plans have been drawn for a museum building, which it is proposed to 

 erect in Golden Gate Park. Work on the new museum building will 

 be delayed until the beginning of next year, pending an amendment 

 to the charter of San Francisco. 



LIBRARY. 14,000 volumes on natural history. 



PUBLICATIONS, (i) Memoirs. (2) Proceedings. (3) Occasional 

 Papers. The reports of the Galapagos Expedition and a history of 

 the academy will be the chief publications issued during the next few 

 years. 



CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Museum. 



The museum contains over 20,000 minerals and rocks obtained 

 solely by donation and exchange. The collection of ores from Cali- 

 fornia mines is very extensive and is supplemented by characteristic 

 ores from the principal mining districts of the world. There are also 

 many models, maps, photographs, and diagrams illustrating the 

 modern practice of mining, milling and concentrating, and the tech- 

 nology of the mineral industries. An educational series of minerals 

 for high schools has been recently inaugurated. The museum occupies 

 about 7500 square feet of floor space for exhibition and is in charge of 

 Percy K. Swan, curator. It is open free to the public on week-days 

 from 9 to 5, except Saturdays, when it closes at 12. The number of 

 visitors is over 120,000 annually. 



MEMORIAL MUSEUM. (Golden Gate Park.) 



This museum was first opened to the public on March 23, 1895. 

 The exhibits represent a value of at least $1,000,000 and include 

 paintings, tapestries, antique furniture, arms and armor, art metals, 

 the Bardwell collection of 700 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, and 

 extensive collections in ethnology, mineralogy, forestry and produce, 

 agriculture, and natural history. The museum maintains a reference 

 library, and has in preparation a museum guide and catalog. The 

 collections are in charge of Albert E. Gray, curator. Recent and 

 detailed information has not been available since the fire of 1906. 



The museum has an annual attendance of over 500,000 visitors. 



SAN FRANCISCO INSTITUTE OF ART. 



STAFF. Director, Robert Howe Fletcher; Assistant secretary, 

 John Ross Martin; 2 janitors. 



ART. Sculpture, 8; Prints and engravings, 94; Oil paintings, 50; 

 Water colors, 3. These are the only portions of the Mark Hopkins 



