REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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List of cases built or remodeled during the year by carpenters employed on the Museum 



force. 



CASES CONSTRUCTED. 



3 bookcases, !i sections each, for library. 



2 bookcases, 1 section each, for library. 

 8 pine unit storage cases, soutb tower. 



1 special mahogany case, for foramiui- 



fera. 

 1 sliding table case. 

 1 pine sample case for unit boxe;<. 



3 card catalogue cases. 



1 special case around stone slab. 



CASES RECONSTRUCTED OR REMODELED. 



23 special cases in bird hall, remodeled 

 and extended. 



17 cases rendered insect-proof by lining 

 them with metal and fitting doors with 

 rubber tubing. 



1 large cherry case reconstructed, made 

 into 3 cases. 



2 .uahogany floor cases remodeled. 



1 mahogany one-half unit case remodeled. 

 1 mahogany pier case reconstructed. 



18 Liverpool cases, remodeled and com- 

 pleted. 



3 sloping cases furnished with panels. 



Although the work and purchases on account of furniture and fix- 

 tures have been somewhat restricted this year by the lessened appro- 

 priation, the plans and methods heretofore adopted have been carried 

 out as far as possible. 



Considerable exterior work has been done. Frequent repairs have 

 been required in the roofs of both buildings ; the north front of the 

 natural-history laboratory has been reconstructed ; flagging has been 

 laid from the main pavement to the door of the auimal house, and the 

 window ledges of nearly the entire museum have been tinned. 



In the interior many repairs and changes have been found necessary 

 to the building itself, as well as to the cases and other furniture. 



The hall, northwest pavilion, has been wainscoted in oak, and a sec- 

 ond much-needed staircase has been built; self-closing, sound-deaden- 

 ing doors, which divide this hall from the lecture room, have been made 

 and put in place ; raised floors have been constructed in the office of 

 the engineer of property, and in the stationery room, and the wooden 

 flooring throughout the building has been frequently patched. 



Several standard, special and sample cases have been built and many 

 more remodeled and extended. The floor of the large special case for 

 the Moose group has been reconstructed ; many cases have been re- 

 paired, fitted with panels, shelving, racks, brackets, etc., relined, ebon- 

 ized, polished, glazed, furnished with doors and locks, and otherwise 

 completed. 



More than 130 mahogany, oak, and pine frames have been made, 

 some of them of great size, like the frame for the allegorical tile- panel 

 of "Progress" now placed over the north entrance. 



Several bases and pedestals, and nearly 5,000 blocks for the display 

 of specimens have been made and completed ; screens have been con- 

 structed, and more than 900 trays, and many shelves and diaphragms 

 have been made and fitted -, several tables have been built, and over 70 

 wing-frames have been repaired, rehinged, and rehung. 

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