1322 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Smithsonian Institution on the southwest corner of the grounds of 
the Smithsonian Institution, $500,000. 
Norr.—This appropriation passed the Senate June 19, 1888, but was not acted on 
by the House. For full explanation of the necessity for this new building see Sen- 
até Report No. 1539, Fiftieth Congress, first session. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 
lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 
ment and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 
necessary employees, $175,000. 
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 
bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 
including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $30,000. 
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and tele- 
phonic service for the National Museum, including salaries or com- - 
pensation of all necessary employees, $15,000. 
For necessary expenses of the custody, exhibition, and increase of 
the living animals in connection with the zoological department, includ- 
ing salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000. 
Postage stamps and foreign postal cards and postage for the National 
Musem, $500. 
For printing labels and blanks, and for the bulletins and annual 
volumes of the proceedings of the National Museum, $18,000; bind- 
ng, $500. 
February 7, 1890—House. 
Deficiency estimates for 1890. 
Preservation of collections: To pay E. F. Hastings, agent Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad Company, for one fare, Washington to Boston, June 
24, 1887, being a deficiency to the appropriation for preservation of 
collections, National Museum, for the fiscal year 1887, $11.45. 
December 1, 1890—House. 
Estimates for 1892. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the col- 
lections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Govern- 
ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all 
necessary employees, $180,000. 
Norre.—The yearly extending demands of the public, the great increase in the 
number of visitors, and the rapid growth of the collections have, during late years, 
caused the necessary scale of expenditure to increase, while that of the appropria- 
tions has not kept pace with it and is now so inadequate as to call for the serious 
attention of Congress. 
The expenditure under this head must bear some general relation to the extent of 
the collections and the number of visitors. Eight years ago the number of cata- 
logued specimens was less than 200,000 and the appropriation was $75,000. At the 
present time there are about 3,000,000 specimens under control, and the appropria- 
tion is $140,000, which it has been for the last two years. While, then, the collec- 
tions have increased fifteen times, the appropriations have been less than doubled, 
