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I cannot close this report without calling attention to the necessity for additional space, in order to accommodate the normal growth of the Section.

From personal intercourse and correspondence with a number of prominent Engineers and Railway Constructors, I feel satisfied that the Collection could be rapidly increased, by the addition of valuable objects, if the space could be found to exhibit them. In no country in the world has there been such a revolution, in the methods of constructing bridges as in America, yet we are compelled to refuse to exhibit models of the early structures, now rapidly going out of use, owing to the crowded condition of the exhibition series. And the same statement holds good in regard to historic locomotives, cars and other bulky objects; it being possible to devote only ^[[600]] square feet, of floor space to the locomotive and railway car.