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Building. The department occupies 64,825 square feet of floor 

 space for exhibition galleries, 4218 for offices, and 14,252 for work- 

 rooms and storerooms in a building erected by Mr. Carnegie in 1907 

 at a cost of over $6,oco,ooo, and occupied jointly by the institute, the 

 library, and the music hall. 



Scope. Primarily public instruction. The art department holds 

 an annual international exhibition open to artists of all countries, at 

 which gold, silver, and bronze medals are awarded, with prizes of $1 500, 

 $1000, and $500 respectively. 



Library. A working collection of about 500 books. 



Publications. An annual report and catalogs of exhibitions. 



Attendance. Open free to the public on week-days from 10 to 

 10 and on Sundays from 2 to 6. 



CARNEGIE INSTITUTE. Department of the Museum. 



Staff. Director, and curator of paleontology and entomology, 

 W. J. Holland; Honorary curators, A. A. Lambing (history), George 

 H. Clapp (conchology) ; Curators, A. E. Ortmann (invertebrate zool- 

 ogy), C. H. Eigenmann (ichthyology); Assistant curators, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings (botany), W. E. C. Todd (birds and mammals), P. E. Raymond 

 (invertebrate paleontology); Custodians, D. A. Atkinson (reptiles), 

 Hugo Kahl (entomology) ; Assistant to director, custodian of miner- 

 alogy, and accession officer, Douglas Stewart; Assistants, Victor 

 Sterki (conchology), Earl Douglass and 0. A. Peterson (paleontology), 

 H. G. Klages (entomology), L. H. Townsend, A. M. Dierdorf, and G. 

 A. Link (taxidermic laboratory), Mrs. 0. E. Jennings (botany), D. C. 

 Hughes (archeology and ethnology); Collectors, J. D. Haseman (ich- 

 thyology), M. A. Carriker, Jr., and Jose Steinbach (zoology); Prepara- 

 tors, A. S. Coggeshall (paleontology), R. H. and J. A. Santens (zool- 

 ogy); Assistant preparators, L. S. Coggeshall and Serafino Agostini 

 (paleontology); Modeler and sculptor, T. A. Mills; Modeler and fore- 

 man of shops, William Banks; Modeler in paleontology, Emil Poli; 

 Librarian, M. J. Gittings; Artist, Sidney A. Prentice; 2 stenographers, 

 3 cabinet makers, and 1 laborer. 20 guards, janitors, engineers, etc. 

 are employed by the Carnegie Institute. 



Anthropology. Uncivilized peoples: Archeology, native, 10,- 

 ooo±, foreign, i3,ooo±; Ethnology, native, qooo±, foreign, 20od±. 

 Civilized peoples, ancient, 72000:, modern, 200±. There are 14 

 life-size ethnological groups on exhibition. This department includes 

 the largest collection of Costa Rican antiquities in the United States, of 

 which Professor C. Y. Hartman has described and figured 530 speci- 



