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Appendix C.

Note on Museum blanks.

The convenience of having blanks and books of inter-related sizes, both for use, packing and filing, has been admitted on all hands and was early inaugurated by the Smithsonian Institution in its publications.

The coordination and regulation of  the affairs of the National Museum which has made so much progress during the last two years naturally suggests the application of this principle to its blanks, Hardly any two of which have hitherto been of the same size and shape.

The sizes admitted to be of the most convenience are:---
1. Folios. (E.g. Museum registers, etc.)
2. Quartos. (1 width and 2-3 the height of No. 1.)
3. Octavos. (half size of Quartos.)
4. Library card, standard size.

Number one can be applied with a little management to all the registers of the museum, not only to those containing the accessions (day book) but to the ledger accounts where they are grouped with reference to their relations, and also documents for registering collections sent out etc.

Number two is suitable for all reports (annual, monthly,) official letters, inventories and the majority of blanks, circulars etc. which are intended for use in single sheets or a few sheets, such as rules, general orders etc.  Such papers are best annually filed in letter books where they can be referred to directly without hunting or unfolding. Number three is best suited for such blanks for requisitions, memoranda etc. as do not require the