1012 
Interior Department : 
Geological Survey .......-ee.-eseeeees $1,023 423.11 
Bureau of Education................-- 59,370.00 
1,082,793.11 
Treasury Department: 
Coast and Geodetic Survey............. $830,345 
Bureau of Standards....... s00Q000000000 167,140 
Marine Hospital oc. oe cee ceeee ne ns 71,100 
1,068,585.00 
Smithsonian Institution : 
National Museum.....-.......eeeeue «..-$289,400 
Bureau of American Ethnology........ 50,000 
National Zoological Park......... 99000 80,000 
Astrophysical Observatory ..........+.. 12,000 
International Exchanges ....... 9000000 24,000 
455,400.00 
Commission of Fish and Fisheries... 543,120.00 
Botanic Gardens ..........-...++ 6 24,393.75 
Library Of COMgress 2.2.0... scene snes eens ee «..- 565,345.00 
Motallsaceeeeeciasacecer aisle Gnemuentioainening $8,080,925.94 
This is about ten cents per capita for the 
entire population. 
Great collections of books, specimens, 
statuary, paintings, instruments, apparatus, 
ete., have been assembled in Washington. 
Libraries.—Statisties of the principal li- 
braries reveal the presence of a large num- 
ber of books, maps and pamphlets, many 
collections of which are exceptionally com- 
plete in special lines of research, notably 
those of the Departments of State and Agri- 
culture, the Geological Survey, the Naval 
Observatory, the Surgeon-General’s Office, 
the Bureau of Education, the Museum of 
Hygiene, the Patent Office, the National 
Museum, and special collections in the Li- 
brary of Congress. The principal libraries 
are here listed : 
Pam- 
Books. philets. Maps. 
Library of Congress..............-. 1,000,000* 55,700 
in ‘* Smithsonian Institution 250,000} 
Ub « U.S. Supreme Court.... 80,000; 
WL “ Army Medical Museum, 135,058 229,546 
ne “ Dept. of Agriculture... 68,000 
ee “ Bureau of Edueation.. 81,872 140,004 
ef FS Patent) OfMCer. neler 74,140 
ne “ Department of State.... 63,000 2,500 
Us “ Geological Survey 47,600 77,027 29,185 
Qs “ National Museum 25,000 30,000 
a “ Coast and Geodetic Sur. 16,405 6,178 25,000 
es “ Weather Bureau ....... 18,000 5,000 
0% ‘* Museum of Hygiene.... 11,969 
* Books and pamphlets. 
+ These figures are included in the 1,000,000 assigned to the 
Library of Congress. 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 339. 
Library of Hydrographic Office.... 3,000 
of “ Bureau of Ethnology... 12,000 4,000 
ob “ Bureau of Statisties..... 6,000 5,000 
v “ Department of Justice.. 30,000 
GG “ Department of Labor... 7,051 4,454 
na “ Corcoran Gallery of Art 2,500 
a8 “ Treasury Department.. 22,000 3,000 
GG “War Department....... 49,000 2,000 
a “ Navy Department...... 33,635 
ee “ Tnterior Department... 15,000 
co “ Post Office Department. 12,000 
Us “ Light-House Board..... 5,000 
ay “War Records Office..... 2,000 
«  “* Naval Observatory..... 20,000 4,000 
te “ Naut. Almanac Office.. 2,200 2,500 
2,092,480 515,209 109,885 
Other libraries in the District bring the 
grand total to more than 2,500,000 volumes, 
570,000 pamphlets, and 110,000 maps, as- 
sembled in large part by specialists in 
every field. All the libraries are accessible 
and are maintained at a high standard of 
efficiency. 
Collections. —The collections of the Na- 
tional Museum, though inadequately housed 
and with insufficient laboratories for the 
work of the regular museum force, are, 
nevertheless, of such character and are so 
arranged for exhibition and study that 
they will be of great service to all who may 
wish to use them. Under the present or- 
ganization of the museum there are three 
departments: Anthropology, Biology and 
Geology. All the exhibits are systemat- 
ically classified and placed in immediate 
charge of specialists acquainted with the 
results of man’s activity in almost every 
form in which such results admit of study 
and representative exhibition. As pro- 
vided by statute, the collections made by 
the Geological and other surveys are de- 
posited in the National Museum after they 
have been used by the organization which 
collected them. This has resulted in an 
immense accumulation of material, much 
of which has not yet been fully studied, 
and upon which, when sufficient laboratory 
space is provided, students can be em- 
ployed under the oversight of the special- 
ists in charge. 
