FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1665 
February 8, 1894—House. 
Deficiency estimates for 1894, ete. 
_ For the expenses of heating the United States National Museum 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, $1,000. 
Norr.—The appropriation this year is $11,000. It will be impossible to properly 
heat the Museum buildings and workshops for the remainder of the season unless 
additional fuel is procured. The sum of $2,000 was appropriated to cover the defi- 
ciency last year, but it is believed that on account of the mildness’ of the present 
winter the addition of $1,000 to the current appropriation this year will be sufficient 
to meet all demands. 
December 3, 1894—House. 
Estimates for 1896. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, 
and for the ‘* Bulletins” and annual volumes of the ‘‘ Proceedings” of 
the National Museum, and binding scientific books and pamphlets 
presented to and acquired by the National Museum library, $18,000. 
.Notr.—The Museum has several important works on the natural history of the 
United States ready to print, and others nearly ready. Notwithstanding the fact 
that there is a constantly increasing demand for information of this kind from the 
schools and public libraries, which the Museum staff is quite able to meet without 
asking more money for the purpose, the appropriation for printing is scarcely greater 
than it was six years ago ($10,000), and much less than in 1892, and the publication 
of these works upon the natural resources of the country is delayed, and not so 
effectively done as is desired. 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. The Proceedings and Bulletins 
of the National Museum, printed under this appropriation, are not ‘‘ public docu- 
ments;’’ hence no part of the edition is regularly apportioned for distribution by the 
Senate dnd House, or to the legal depositories. The edition now printed is only 
sufficient to supply in limited measures the very urgent requests from public libraries, 
educational institutions, and scientific investigators in the United States and through- 
out the world. 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. 
The latter portion of this title of appropriation is, in the present year, covered by 
a separate appropriation of $1,000. 
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. 
Nore.—From this appropriation are paid all expenses, not only for the preservation 
and increase of collections, but for cleaners, watchmen, and other employees whose 
duty it is to keep the exhibition halls in proper condition and provide for the comfort 
of visitors. The constant growth of the collections, the steady increase in the number 
of visitors, and the yearly extending demands of educational institutions and of the 
public upon the Museum, render the appropriations of the present year insufficient, 
though slightly increased above the appropriation for the preceding year. It is 
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