SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Bulletin 80 



A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE BUILDING 



RECENTLY ERECTED FOR THE DEPARTMENTS 



OF NATURAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED 



STATES NATIOJSfAL MUSEUM 



BY 



RICHARD RATHBUN 



Assislani Secretary of the Smithsonian Institutiofi in Charge 

 of the United States National Museum 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1913 



