1820 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
accordance with this provision, which can also be made to answer the requirements 
for the next fiscal year, the leases entered into and subject to renewal will necessi- 
tate an appropriation of only $4,040. 
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, 
$500. 
For making natural history investigations and collections in Porto 
Rico, Cuba, and the Hawaiian, Philippine, and Ladrone islands, includ- 
ing expenses of equipping and maintaining field parties, transportation, 
subsistence, supplies, freight, and other incidentals, and salaries or 
compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000, to be immediately 
available. 
Notr.—Means are requested by the National Museum for making natural history 
collections and investigations on a comprehensive scale in the several islands which 
have recently been acquired by the United States or brought under its control. It 
is a recognized fact that a complete knowledge of the animal, vegetable, and mineral 
kingdoms can only be arrived at by combining investigations in the field with the 
study of specimens in the Museum and laboratory. Upon such researches and col- 
lections must be based the practical work of the various scientific bureaus of the 
Government relative to the agriculture, mining, and fisheries of the islands. The 
National Museum alone is organized to assemble and preserve such natural history 
collections and to make them ayailable for study. 
Numerous inquiries have already been received regarding the plants and animals 
of the several islands, and the National Museum is at present without comprehensive 
collections from any of them, especially from Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. 
The natural products of these islands have been for the most part but little studied, 
and are very imperfectly known in this country. 
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and 
for the ‘‘ Bulletins” and ‘‘ Proceedings” of the National Museum—the 
editions of which shall not be less than 3,000 copies—and binding, in 
half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and 
pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum 
Library, $17,000. 
NATIONAL MUSEUM—APPROPRIATIONS. 
June 4, 1897. 
Sundry civil act for 1898. 
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For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- 
bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, 
including $15,000 for furnishing new galleries and 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, $14,000. 
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, $160,000, of which sum $3,500 may be used 
for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National 
Museum. 
