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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION  481
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[[underlined]]Section of Wood Technology[[/underlined]]. The Section of Wood Technology has received a large piece of timber recently removed from the unique hammer beam roof of Westminster Hall, which has been undergoing extensive repairs under Sir Lionel Earle. Certain of the timbers supporting this roof have been so attacked by the larvae of certain wood-boring beetles that it was found necessary to take them out and replace them by new oak, while inserting an invisible reinforced steel roof throughout to carry all the load. The roof was built by Richard II, between the years 1393 and 1399, and is probably the most interesting piece of construction of any ancient roof in existence. The endeavor has been to preserve every inch of the old oak possible, partly on account of the beauty of its color and partly on account of its extreme age, which must be anything from 900 to 1000 years and upwards. The section of the old roof timber sent to the Museum by Sir Lionel Earle, through Ambassador Davis, shows the beauty of the old craftmen's work, and the durability of oak when used in heavy construction.

[[underlined]]Section of Medicine[[/underlined]]. The American Pharmaceutical Society and the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention, Incorporated, have deposited in the Museum, several boxes of valuable historical documents consisting of manuscripts, corrected proof, and circulars of comment used in the development and revision of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary, which books are the legal standards used in the enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Law.

[[underlined]]Bureau of American Ethnology[[/underlined]].

During the past summer the Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology unearthed on the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, a temple formerly used in the worship of fire as a symbol of life.

The discovery of this unique temple will greatly enlarge our knowledge of the wonderful people that inhabited Colorado before its discovery by Europeans.
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