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group has been installed, it has become more and more 

 difficult to find a source of light until all available means 

 have been exhausted. 



Another need is new elevators to replace those in use 

 for the past twenty-five years, which, while safe under 

 normal conditions, continually demand minor repairs, are 

 very slow, and are extremely hard on the operator. 



This Museum has frequent calls for information in regard 



to principles of administration, especially the relations of 



the Museum to the schools and the workings 



Cooperation of its Department of Public Education, and for 



with other snch matters as methods of preparation, and 



Institutions . 



and Societies these have been particularly numerous during 

 the past year. Representatives have come 

 from such widely separated points as Moscow, Hiroshima, 

 and Canterbury, New Zealand, while the State Museum, 

 Albany, the Boston Society of Natural History and Mt. 

 Holyoke Seminary have had members of their force as 

 volunteer workers in the Department of Preparation to ac- 

 quire a practical knowledge of making molds, casts and 

 accessories. 



Dr. R. H. Colley and his associate, Mr. Baldwin, spent 

 much time at the Museum gathering data regarding salaries 

 of Staff and Preparators and methods of accounting, for 

 the Senate Commission, and, as usual, every facility was 

 given them. 



In this connection should be mentioned a point not 

 usually taken into consideration — that the more generally 

 useful is a man or an institution, the wider his, or its sphere 

 of influence, the less can that man or institution do individu- 

 ally, the smaller will appear the immediate or visible results. 



The policy of the American Museum of Natural History 

 has always been most liberal in affording information in 

 all branches of its work, administrative, scientific or 

 mechanical, and the administration feels that the time lost 

 to itself is more than compensated by its service to the 

 public. 



