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Buildings. 
1. Museum. The care of the museum building has 
mainly been restricted to ordinary repairs, and the structure 
is in good order. The contract of the Department of Parks 
with Thomas Dwyer for the building and placing of a large 
amount of additional furniture was satisfactorily completed 
early in the spring. Additional construction-work includes 
the building of two sinks, one on each of the main museum 
floors, enclosed in closets for the janitors; these greatly 
facilitate the cleaning of the building. Additional sinks 
were also placed in the laboratories on the upper floor, their 
need having been demonstrated. An accidental explosion of 
dynamite used for blasting rock shattered many panes of 
glass at the east end of the building on December 18; the 
damage was at once repaired. 
Front Approach to the Museum Building. The contract 
of the Department of Parks with the Wilson & Baillie Manu- 
facturing Company, for the construction of the front approach 
to the museum building, was finally completed and the work 
accepted early in the year. 
A design for the fountain planned for construction at the 
end of this approach and immediately in front of the museum 
building has been approved by the Board of Managers, on 
the recommendation of a committee selected by the National 
Sculpture Society, and has also been approved by the Com- 
missioner of Parks. Considerable time will be required in 
preparing the models, and in casting the bronze for this 
fountain, but it is hoped that it will be in position by the 
autumn of 1904. 
2. Public Conservatortes. No additional construction- 
work has been done at these great glass houses, and they 
have been kept in good order with ordinary repairs, including 
the painting of the entire exterior. 
During the autumn a contract was awarded by the Com- 
missioner of Parks to Guidone and Galanti for the construc- 
tion of two concrete steel tanks in the court of the public 
conservatories for the growing of tender and half-hardy 
