USNM Curators Annual Reports - Department of Mammals, 1894-1895

For the Department of Mammals, 1895 offered a special opportunity to bring its collections to a global audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Special buildings were erected for the different nations, yet exhibit space was still in short supply. How did the department choose specimens to exhibit? What other factors went into this temporary offsite exhibit? Please help us transcribe curator Frederick W. True's report of the planning and preparations for this event as well as the normal activity of his museum department.