REPORT UPON THE EXHIBIT OF THE SMITHSONIAN 

 INSTITUTION AND THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL 

 MUSEUM AT THE COTTON STATES AND INTERNA- 

 TIONAL EXPOSITION, ATLANTA, GA., 1895. 



By G. Brown Goode, LL. D., 



Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, in charge United States National Museum. 



The exhibit made by the Institution was not as satisfactory as it was 

 planned to be, owing to the small amount of money allotted for its prep- 

 aration, transportation, installation, maintenance, and return. Had it 

 not been possible to draw extensively from the exhibits of the Museum 

 that were procured for and shown at the World's Columbian Exposition 

 at Chicago and from the specimens of the Museum the exhibit would 

 have been even less creditable. With such resources as were at my 

 command, I am pleased to say that an exhibit was made which, 

 although small, proved itself to be both attractive and instructive. In 

 preparing it, however, the halls of the Museum were dismantled, the 

 collections broken and disarranged, and the whole Museum building 

 presented an untidy appearance during most of last summer and winter. 



The immediate charge of the exhibits was placed in the hands of 

 Mr. R. E. Earll, who had in a very satisfactory manner performed 

 similar service at previous expositions. 



The space assigned to the Institution for its exhibit was in the south- 

 western quarter of the Government building, and contained 5,300 feet 

 of floor space, exclusive of the central aisle. The approaches were by 

 two entrances, one to the right of the southern portal and one to the 

 left of the eastern portal of the building. (See PI. LXI.) 



Most of the objects, as above stated, were from the collections of the 

 National Museum, and they were so arranged as to enable them to be 

 studied in regular sequence, beginning at the southern portal. They 

 were grouped in alcoves 20 feet in width and from 12 to 20 in depth, on 

 either side of a broad passageway 150 feet in length, as shown in the 

 following diagram, and designated by the letters A, Q. 



On the right of the main entrance were a large picture of the Smith- 

 sonian building, a portrait of Secretary Langley, and a complete set of 

 the publications of the Institution, about 200 volumes ; also photographs 

 of apparatus and illustrations of the work in the Astrophysical Observ- 



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