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While it has not been possible for the City to provide for 

 any addition to the building, yet the good will of the municipal 

 government is shown by the allotment of some $15,000 

 for the purpose of necessary repairs. The request for 

 the transfer of the balance of $111,808.77 (left from the 

 appropriation for the construction of the foundation of the 

 new East Wing, commenced in 1912, but abandoned for lack 

 of funds) to equipment fund has also met with approval. It is 

 therefore hoped that during the coming year it may be possible 

 to add a number of the storage rooms and cases so badly 

 needed for the preservation of material actually on hand. 



The frequent use of the West Assembly Hall for temporary 

 exhibits, mainly of paintings and other objects of an artistic 

 character, but related to the work of the Museum, shows the 

 need of such a room as is included in the plan for a Southwest 

 Court Building. Thus, during the year there have been 

 exhibited at the Museum an introductory series of drawings 

 in color of "Our Common Home Birds," by Mr. H. C. 

 Denslow; photographs of North Pacific Coast Indians, by 

 Mr. Edward S. Curtis; photographic transparencies illustrating 

 certain noteworthy features of the work by Professor Percival 

 Lowell and his staff at the Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona; 

 paintings and bronzes by Mr. William de la Montagne Cary, 

 from studies of Indian life made by him in the West between 

 1861 and 1874; and a series of enlargements of the remarkable 

 photographs taken by the Australasian-Antarctic expedition 

 under Sir Douglas Mawson. The total attendance at the five 

 exhibitions referred to amounted to 73,654. 



The President has dwelt on the pressing need for the 

 Southeast Wing, and the Director may well call attention to 

 the great necessity for a building to be devoted to work- 

 rooms, storage, laboratories and temporary exhibitions, such 

 as the Flower Show, which is indeed more and more pressing. 



There are hundreds of plaster molds and many casts, 

 belonging to various departments, which are now scattered 

 about the Museum, many of them -in almost inaccessible 

 places and all in inconvenient ones, that should be properly 

 cared for and placed where they are readily available. This 

 is now an impossibility and matters are steadily getting worse. 



