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many of these collections were presented to and accepted by the Government. It then became necessary to provide for their care, and the present Museum system was developed, first with the erection of a large building to meet immediate necessities (1878) and subsequently by the erection of the great Natural History Museum building (1906), and to these has since been added the Freer Gallery of Art (1923), and there is now immediate necessity for a large building to accommodate the Art and History collections of the Government.

[[underlined]]Bureau of American Ethnology.[[/underlined]] The Bureau of American Ethnology originated with the Explorations of the Colorado River by Major John W. Powell in 1867-69, and which were extended later into a survey of the Rocky Mountain region, under Powell. When the several geological and geographical surveys of the Government were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879, the ethnological investigations of the Powell, Hayden, and Wheeler Surveys were separated and placed in charge of a special bureau under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, where they have continued to be administered.

[[underlined]]Zoological Park.[[/underlined]] The Zoological Park was created by acts of Congress of March 2, 1889, and April 30, 1890, definitely placing the Park under the direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The present area of the Park is 175 acres, and it was visited during the last fiscal year by 2,393,428 persons.

[[underlined]]National Gallery of Art.[[/underlined]] For sixty-five years the growth of the art collections of the Government was relatively slow. All that were gathered were treated as a collection of the National Museum and installed wherever a vacant place could be found. A great impulse was given during the Roosevelt administration by gifts to the Nation by Evans and Freer, and later by Ralph Cross Johnson. On July 1, 1920, the art collections of the Government in charge of the Smithsonian Institution were segregated as the result of Congressional action, and the National Gallery of Art was organized as a separate unit, and
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