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[[red ink]] This is offered as a substitute for the omitted passage in the original report. K. [[/red ink]]

Of the various recommendations made by me in former reports, I shall reiterate only one: - The necessity of more liberal appropriations for the Section of Graphic Arts. The unfortunate consequences growing out of the present condition of things made themselves very seriously felt in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, and I shall therefore beg leave to offer a few remarks on this subject. 

Among the great achievements which make the fifteenth century one of the most important epochs in the history of the human race, the development of the reproductive or multiplying arts is by no means the smallest. Like the art of printing books from movable type, these arts were the outcome of the individualistic and humanistic movement of the time, and like it they have been instrumental in disseminating knowledge and training the human mind in the modern way of looking at things - the modern