USNM Curators Annual Reports - Department of Birds: Annual and Monthly Reports 1883

Two years after the opening of the United States National Museum, space was already weighing on the minds of the curators. As part of his annual report, curator Robert Ridgway includes a letter to second Secretary Spencer Baird asking for changes to be made in the allocation of space after his careful study of what we now refer to as the Arts & Industries building. Join us in this transcription project and see the remarkable growth the Museum was undergoing through Ridgway's annual and monthly reports.