1504 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
is a subject which has not yet been adequately worked out in this country, but to 
which the Bethnal Green Museum in London, one of the most interesting places of 
public instruction in the world, is very largely devoted. 
The industrial resources derived from the vegetable and mineral kingdoms may also 
with propriety be shown, except so far as these subjects may be taken up respectively 
by the Department of Agriculture and the Geological Survey. 
In connection with the anthropological departments of the Museum, an attempt 
should be made to show the physical and other characteristics of the principal races 
of man, and the early stages of the history of civilization as shown by the evolution 
of certain selected primitive arts and industries. Here might properly be presented 
a considerable number of models of habitations and of costumed figures. Nothing 
was so popular and effective in the recent Paris Exposition as displays of this char- 
acter, and the resources of the National Museum workshops for doing work of this 
kind are probably better than are to be found elsewhere in America. In the case of 
certain selected arts and industries, it might be well to show quite a large group of 
specimens, and to show their development from their beginning to the most advanced 
stages of the present time. 
Among those best suited for this treatment would be the history of transportation 
by land and water. A floor space of 5,000 feet might well be occupied by this sub- 
ject, which forms so important a part of the history of civilization. Every mode of 
transportation known to man may be shown by originals, drawings, and models.” A 
large amount of material in this direction is already in our possession, and much 
more is easily accessible. The economical industries, including an exhibition of the 
chemical elements and all their principal combinations; the methods of manufacture 
of all substances produced by the applications of chemistry and their utilization in 
the arts and industries; the history of music and musical instruments; the history 
and methods of printing and book making; the history of the development of instru- 
ments of precision; the history and methods of photography and the graphic arts; 
the fine arts, and the application of the arts of design to industrial arts and manu- 
facture. 
(3) Asa special subject, the archeology of America, to constitute the exhibit of 
the Bureau of Ethnology. This will include illustrations of the mounds and ruins 
of the ancient Pueblos, the cliff ruins of the cavate lodgers of the Pueblo regions, the 
shell mounds of the Pacific, and also the archzeology of the Atlantic Slope and the 
culture of the Alaskan Indians; all these subjects to be shown by means of models, 
photographs, drawings and maps, and collections of the objects of art characteristic 
of each of these types of civilization, together with a representation of the work and 
methods of the Bureau by means of its publications. 
A portion of the material for such an exhibit has already been collected and is now 
in possession of the Bureau or of the National Museum, but a portion to illustrate 
special features is still to be gathered. 
For the proper exhibition of the material, it is estimated that 15,000 square feet 
of floor surface will be required and 5,000 square feet of wall and window space. 
The estimate for floor surface includes all necessary allowance for aisles and passages. 
To make such supplementary collections as are necessary; to make maps, charts, 
models, photographs, and transparencies; to transport the material and install it in 
Chicago, including cost of cases and expense of mounting and labeling specimens; to 
prepare a catalogue; to care for the exhibit while in Chicago, and finally to transport 
it to the National Museum at Washington, it is estimated that $160,000 will be 
required. 
I have prepared a detailed estimate of the exhibits under each of these heads as to 
space and cost. These are at your disposition, but are not given here. From these 
estimates the following more general ones have been derived. 
The amount of space required will not be less than 80,000 square feet, which would 
be equivalent to 60,000 square feet exclusive of the space reserved for main passage 
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