1662 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM—SUNDAY AND EVENING OPENING. 
May 28, 1894—House. 
Mr. AtteN C. DurBorrow, Jr., introduced joint resolution (H. 
183): 
That the officers in charge of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, 
the Botanical Gardens, and the Washington Monument be, and hereby are, instructed 
to keep those properties open to the public on every week day from 9 antemeridian 
to 6 postmeridian, and on Sunday from 9 antemeridian to 4 postmeridian, and on 
not less than three evenings every week from 7 to 10 o’clock. 
Referred to Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM—ESTIMATES. 
December 4, 1893—House. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 
for the ‘‘ bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ proceedings” of the 
National Museum, $18,000. 
Notr.—The proceedings and bulletins of the National Museum, printed under this 
appropriation, are not ‘‘ public documents,”’ hence no part of the edition is regularly 
apportioned for distribution by the Senate and House or to the legal depositories. 
The edition of 3,000 copies now printed is only sufficient to supply, in limited meas- 
ure, the very urgent requests from public libraries, educational institutions, and scientific 
investigators in the United States and throughout the world. One of the principal 
objects in asking for a larger appropriation is to enable the Museum to place a full 
series of its publications in representative libraries in different parts of each State. 
It is not the intention that the annual number of issues of the proceedings and bul- 
letins should be increased, but that a larger edition of each should be printed. On 
account of the small edition the Museum fails to receive in exchange the valuable 
publications of many scientific institutions. 
The amounts hitherto appropriated, though expended with strict economy, have 
been found inadequate. 
For binding scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired 
by the National Museum library, $1,000. 
Norr.—There being no appropriation for binding, many valuable books in the 
Museum library are rendered practically useless and are in danger of damage, and 
many valuable publications, chiefly gifts, and important scientific serials can not be 
used for fear of injuring them, and are, in spite of care, in danger of destruction. 
Formerly, when the Museum was more closely connected with the Department of 
the Interior, the books in its library were bound at the Government bindery at the 
expense of that Department, but since this connection has ceased no books what- 
ever have been bound. 
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the 
collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Gov- 
ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation 
of all necessary employees, $132,500. 
(The Smithsonian Institution estimates for an increase in this item 
of $47,500 over the present appropriation. ) 
