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economic  step.  The  total  number  of  specimen  titles  printed  for 
different  departments  has  been  as  follows:  Department  of  Anthrop- 
ology, 651;  Department  of  Geology,  1,508;  Department  of  History, 
140;  Department  of  Industrial  Arts,  1,187;  Division  of  Steam  Trans- 
portation, 262;  Department  of  Zoology,  688,  also  much  general  work. 
The  announcements  for  lecture  courses  and  all  of  the  blank  forms 
used  in  the  Museum  are  now  issued  from  the  Museum  printing  office. 
Exposition  Records. — By  order  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
the  room  of  that  Committee  was  offered  to  and  accepted  by  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition  for  the  purpose  of  storing  and  index- 
ing the  papers  and  records  of  the  Exposition,  preparing  final  reports, 
etc.  Two  fire-proof  vaults  were  constructed  by  the  Exposition  under 
the  rooms  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  the  adjoining  room,  No. 
19,  entrance  to  which  is  accomplished  by  means  of  a  stairway  leading 
from  the  Executive  Committee  room.  In  these  vaults  have  been 
stored  the  records  and  correspondence  and  vouchers  and  papers  gen- 
erally of  the  Exposition,  of  which  the  Museum,  it  is  understood,  is  to 
eventually  become  the  custodian. 
Warehouse  and  Workshop. — The  purchase  of  a  warehouse  and 
workshop,  by  order  of  the  Executive  Committee,  which  building  is 
located  on  the  corner  of  Fifty-sixth  Street  and  Jefferson  Avenue,  has 
provided  the  institution  with  ample  room  for  storage  purposes  and 
with  rooms  for  carpentry,  modeling  and  plaster  work,  and  for  taxi- 
dermy, three  kinds  of  labor  which  could  not  be  permitted  within  the 
Museum  building  as  at  present  arranged.  The  small  rooms,  in  what 
may  be  termed,  the  second  galleries  of  the  Courts,  which  it  was 
thought  might  be  utilized  for  these  purposes,  have  by  force  of  cir- 
cumstances been  pre-empted  by  the  Curators  of  Botany,  Zoology  and 
Ornithology  for  laboratories,  by  the  poisoning  and  disinfecting  labor- 
atory, by  the  guards  and  by  the  departments  of  printing  and  photog- 
raphy. These  twelve  rooms  are  already  inadequate  for  the  purposes 
to  which  they  are  devoted,  and  more  room  for  working  is  already  one 
of  the  great  needs  of  the  Museum. 
Light  and  Heat. — The  most  important  permanent  improve- 
ments during  the  past  year  have  been  the  construction  of  steam 
heating  and  electric  light  plants,  which  systems  are  installed  in 
a  new  boiler  house  at  the  west  of  the  building,  and  have  given  the 
greatest  satisfaction  in  operation.  The  steam  plant  has  three  100  H. 
P.  boilers,  12,000  feet  of  steam  pipe  and  70  radiators.  The  electric 
light  plant  has  a  capacity  of  forty  1, 200-candle  power  arc  lamps.  The 
problem  of  heating  the  immense  area  within  the  Museum  walls  was 
one  that  required  the  most  serious  consideration.     It  was  found 
