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Grading. 
In the spring a space of about 100 feet square on the east 
side of the Herbaceous Grounds was filled for an average 
thickness of one foot with top soil brought from the Museum 
excavations, to cancel an excess of moist land. 
During the erection of the stable, a fill averaging about 
two and one-half feet deep was made all around that build- 
ing, with soil supplied by Mr. J. B. McDonald, who laid a 
temporary track from his construction railroad and performed 
all the work in an expeditious manner. This area has been 
sown and planted. 
The filling required about the power house, and for the 
service road for coal leading from behind that structure to its 
roof, derived from the excavations for the building itself, 
was made as nearly complete as the building operations 
would permit up to the beginning of cold weather. A few 
days’ work in the spring will finish this work, so that the 
slopes may be sown and planted. 
Late in October the large problem of constructing the de- 
sired slopes and terrace about the Museum was attacked, and 
work has been continued about the northwestern end of the 
building ever since, with all the force which could be spared 
from other necessary operations. Considerable progress has 
been made, but the greater part of this work still remains to 
be accomplished. 
Several thousand cubic yards of rock and earth from the 
Museum excavations have been dumped by the contractors 
under my directions over an area of low ground south of the 
Museum, to help in the formation of the final surface, and in 
the building of the driveway located there, and a large 
amount from the same excavations has been hauled by them 
to the northwestern end of the lake-site north of the Museum, 
to make a necessary fill. This has all been carried out in 
accordance with the General Plan, which contemplates an 
equal amount of excavation and filling, with the shortest 
hauls possible. 
