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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 887 
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MADE BY BAKER-VAWTER CO. 
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between the various floors.

(d) To exclude exterior light entirely from the galleries, but to provide ample light and ventilation in the offices and laboratories.

(e) To provide convenient entrances for visitors, for the Museum staff, and for freight and supplies.

(f) To conform to the spirit of the general plan for the development of the Mall. 

(g) To produce a building which, in the completed form with the additions, would be harmonious in design and expressive of the use to which the building is to be put.

(h) The materials of the new wings will have to conform in general to those of the present building.

Dr.Wetmore emphasized the need for additional space, but felt that under existing conditions, there was hardly a hope that means to start this construction could be provided for some time to come.
 
[[underlined]] The Bureau of American Ethnology. [[/underlined]] The Secretary said that the Bureau had pursued its linguistic, ethnological and archeological studies in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, Arizona, and the Dakotas.  Results had been diffused by several important technical publications.  Particularly interested are the archeological investigations of Mr.Stirling in Florida and of Dr.Roberts in Arizona.  Ancient sites had been uncovered by the latter showing the type of Indian dwellings of the Seventh Century, and valuable specimens were recovered.  The scientific personnel of the Bureau has been strengthened by the engagement of Mr.Winslow M. Walker and Dr.William Duncan Strong.

[[underlined]] National Zoological Park. [[/underlined]] The Secretary then continued that on July 22nd, the Director and an Assistant Head Keeper sailed from New York for British Guiana on a collecting expedition.  128 specimens of birds, 21 specimens of mammals, and 189 specimens of reptiles and amphibians were obtained including a number of species that had never before been exhibited in the National Zoological Park, and several that had never before been exhibited in any Zoo. 

The steel work for the eagle-flight cage has been erected near the Bird House, and there now remains the building of the artificial rock-work and the placing of the wire fabric on the steel frame of the cage, which, when