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control of a Government Department would prove fatal to the hope of adding to its endowed funds as authorized by Congress, March 12, 1894 (28 Stat. at Large, p. 41)

The Secretary added that he had recently talked with President Coolidge and others on this subject, and had reason to believe that the realization of the plan for including the Institution under a Government Department was highly improbable. 

There was a general discussion showing that the Regents were opposed to any such movement.

NEED OF ADDITIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY.

[[underlined]] Subject. [[/underlined]] The Secretary went on to say that there was urgent need for the provision for an Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be charged, under the direction of the Secretary, with the administration of the National Museum, Art Galleries, Zoological Park, and Bureau of American Ethnology, and with such other duties as may from time tom time be assigned to him by the Secretary.
 
The development of the several branches enumerated above is briefly as follows:

[[underlined]] Museum. [[/underlined]] It is provided in the act of establishment* of the Smithsonian Institution that it shall have charge of the natural history, ethnological, art collections, etc., belonging to the Government. These features were slowly developed during the first thirty years of the Institution's life, and the collections housed in the Smithsonian Institution building (1855), but in 1876 the Philadelphia Exhibition brought to the United States an immense collection of material from various nations of the world. At the close of the Exhibition 

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*Revised Statutes of the United States, 1878, Title LXXIII, page 1082.
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