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12. Please present any plans which you have in view for the development of your department.

^[[The custodian has in view the acquisition and exhibition of a complete series of ^[[the present]] coinage of all countries, [[strikethrough]] are to be arranger in a manner that shall at once[[/strikethrough]] showing their ^[[commercial and]] intrinsic value, [[strikeout]]finesse[[/strikeout]] fineness, and comparative value with the coinage of the United States. It is believed that such a collection will be of great interest to the public and to students. This also planned to exhibit as soon as space will permit the very full series of medals of various countries which are ^[[now]] stored and [[strikethrough]]or p almost[[/strikethrough]] inaccessible to the public.

A large ^[[ exhibition]] case ^[[is being built for the proper  [[strikethrough]]will be debuted[[/strikethrough]] display of relics of the ^[[Federal Army]] [[strikeout]]?[[/strikeout]] during the war of the Rebellion.

It is intended [[strikethrough]]at an early day[[/strikethrough]] ^[[as soon as space permits]] to place on exhibition such a series of portraits of representative Americans as was shown by the museum at the Worlds Fair where it attracted much attention]]