1262 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
The Secretary of War says in his report: 
In my opinion the project is a commendable one, and if the necessary funds are 
appropriated, interesting sets of models can be prepared and specimens can be gath- 
ered from year to year. 
General S. V. Benét, Chief of Ordnance U. S. Army, writes: 
I herewith transmit a list of articles at the armory and arsenals which can be used 
for the purpose indicated, and are sufficient to form a nucleus about which from year 
to year interesting specimens can be gathered, which in the future may form amuseum 
that will rival those to be found at other capitals throughout the world. TI heartily 
indorse the project, and think that a liberal appropriation could not be better 
expended in the interest of a broad, national, patriotic spirit. 
Commodore W. 8. Schley, Chief of the Bureau of. Equipment and 
Recruiting, U. S. Navy, says in his communication to the Secretary 
of the Navy: 
* * * There is abundant material at the several navy-yards which could be got 
together and prepared for exhibition in a national military and nayal museum. 
Specimens of rope, chain, anchors, and galleys might be arranged tastefully and - 
instructively, showing the great progress made in all these things in the last twenty- 
five or thirty years. 
I would suggest that naval trophies of all kinds, wherever they may be found in 
the possession of the Government, be collected together for the purpose suggested by 
the resolution. 
I believe the establishment of a national military and naval museum in the city of 
Washington would be one of the most interesting and instructive features at the cap- 
ital, and would afford a place of deposit for trophies of all kinds and character found 
by officers of the Navy in all parts of the world. 
Surgeon-General J. Mills Browne, U. 8. Navy, says: 
The Bureau would state that the proposition meets with its cordial approval, and 
the Bureau will, if such a museum is established, contribute a full outfit of supplies 
used in the Medical Department, and such contributions illustrative of naval inven- 
tion, organization, construction, and equipment pertaining to the Medical Department 
as can be spared from the exhibits at the museum of hygiene. 
The fact seems to be generally recognized by the heads of depart- 
ments and bureaus of the Army and Navy, that such a museum as is 
contemplated in the accompanying bill would be of much value as an 
adjunct to the work which these officers are called upon to perform. 
Especially would this appear to be true of those branches of the sery- 
ice whose work is of a scientific character. Thus, Commodore John 
G. Walker, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Depart- 
ment, enumerates the following as among the contributions which that 
Bureau could make to the proposed museum: 
(1) Nautical instruments of various descriptions, illustrative of the progress and 
improvements made in their manufacture, comprising chronometers (old and new), 
compasses of all kinds, azimuth circles, compass binnacles of various types, sex- 
tants, octants, quadrants, artificial horizons, spy and binocular glasses. 
(2) Astronomical instruments used in observing the transit of Venus, and in the 
several expeditions for determining secondary meridians by electricity, photographs 
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