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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



No attempt has been made to present the needs of the Museum in 

 regard to the purchase or collecting of specimens, the purchase of gen- 

 eral supplies, preservatives, materials for mounting and installing col- 

 lections, books, exhibition cases, furniture, fuel, and gas, the mainte- 

 nance of the heating and lighting appliances, freight and cartage, trav- 

 elling expenses of collectors and agents, etc. 



For these various purposes the expenditure in the last fiscal year 

 amounted to $45,249.53, and that for the present fiscal year will, it is 

 estimated, amount to about $48,000, a sum very inadequate to the needs 

 of the service. 



It does not include the expenditures for printing the labels and blanks 

 and proceedings and bulletins of the Museum, for which the appropri- 

 ation for many years past has been $10,000, and for which I have asked 

 $15,000 for the coming fiscal year. 



I must not omit to call your attention to the fact that, owing to the 

 peculiar constitution of the Museum as a scientific establishment, it has 

 hitherto been possible to secure a special economy, owing to the fact 

 that its officers and employes are not scheduled as in the Executive De- 

 partments. 



In thus presenting, in obedience to the request of the Senate, a sched- 

 ule of a durable organization of the service, I wish to remark, emphati- 

 cally, that there are pressing needs in other directions — needs that merit 

 the serious consideration of Congress, in order that the National Mu- 

 seum may be enabled to maintain a satisfactory position in comparison 

 with those of European nations. 



I have the honor to be, your most obedient servant, 



S. P. Langley, 



Hon. John J. Ingalls, Secretary. 



President, pro tempore, of the Senate. 



Schedule of the classified service of the officers and employe's of the United 

 States Rational Museum, arranged according to duty and salary, as re- 

 quired for the proper loorhing of the Museum. 



Designation. 



Compensa- 

 tion. 



Scientific staff. 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution, director ex officio 



Assistant secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of National Mu- 

 seum 



Curator and executive officer 



Five curators, at $2,400 



Five curators, at $2, 100 



Four assistant curators, at $1,600. 

 Four assistant curators, at $1,400. 



Four aids, at $1,200 



Six aids, at $1,000 



Special service by contract 



Clerical staff. 



Chief clerk 



Four chiefs of divisions: Correspondence; transportation, storage, and 

 record; publications and labels; installation, at $2,000 



One disbursing clerk* 



$4, 000. 00 



3, 000. 00 



12, 000. 00 



10, 500. 00 



6, 400. 00 



5, 600. 00 

 4, 800. 00 



6, 000. 00 

 4, 000. 00 



56, 300. 00 



2, 200. 00 



8, 000. 00 

 1, 200. 00 



1 This officer receives pay also from the Smithsonian Institution for similar services 



