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with the just expectation that here they will find the best and richest material for their researches. Fortunately, there is a way by which this aim can be reached without any cost to the nation as represented through government. Ever since the passage of the copyright law two copies of each copyrighted print, book, etc., have been deposited in the [[strikethrough]] Library [[/strikethrough]] Congressional Library. I would respectfully recommend that Congress be ^[[asked]] to pass a law, directing that one copy of each copyrighted print, illustrated book, etc., now in the Congressional Library, be turned over to the U.S. National Museum, to be there deposited in the Section of Graphic Arts, and that all similar matter henceforth received be similarly divided between the Congressional Library and the U.S. National Museum. 

Another need of the Section of Graphic Arts [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] is a special library. Even in the present embryonic condition of its collections, books of reference are often wanted, which ought to be at hand for immediate use, if they are to be of any use at all. The Marsh Collection again offers a nucleus of great value, and I would venture the further suggestion that the books belonging

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