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^[[ [[underline]] new page [[/underline]] ]][[centered]] [[double underline]] 8. [[/underline]] [[/centered]]

^[[ [[centered]] [[underline]] Plan for Chemical Exhibit. [[/underline]] ]]
^[[ [[centered]] By Roymn Hitchcock, 1889. [[/centered]] ]]

In a communication addressed to you, dated February 8, of the present year, I suggested a plan for the chemical exhibit, which I proposed should be printed for circulation among chemists and manufacturers. At that time you were not prepared to act upon the matter, and the plan remain still to be considered. It seems to me that the time has come when the Museum may well undertake to build up a collection illustrating pure chemistry and the chemical industries, such as cannot now be found in any institutionin ^[[ vertical line separating the 2 previous words ]] the country. I therefore venture to present my provisional scheme once more for your consideration, not as an essential part of this report, but as an appendix, to be published with it should meet with your approval. I offer it, not as a well developed plan, but rather as a suggestive outline of what seems to me a practicable and desirable basis of work, to be added to the results of experience.

[[Triple underline]] PROVISIONAL PLAN OF A COLLECTION TO ILLUSTRATE
CHEMISTRY AND THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES.
BY ROMYN HITCHCOCK. [[/underline]] 

The scheme here roughly outlined is presented merely to indicate the character and objects of a collection