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[[stamped]] Report for 1895 [[/stamped]]

[[stamped]] EXAMINED BY MR. RATHBUN MARCH 1913. [[stamped]] 

^[[Technological Collection, 1895]]

The Assistant Secretary in charge of the U.S.National Museum

Sir:-  I have the honor to submit the following report upon the Sections of Technological Collections for the year ending June 30, 1895.

On the 2d of January, 1895 I temporarily resumed my active duties in the Museum after an absence of two years and three months and devoted the remainder of that month to the rearrangement of the collections in the Section of Transportation and Engineering in the East Hall.

Under date of Feby. 6, 1895, advice was received from the Secretary to the effect that I had been "restored to the list of active curators in the U. S. National Museum x  xx to date from the 1st inst. and with the title of Curator of the Technological Collections, the curatorship of trans^[[portation and Engineering being abolished".]] 

[[strikethrough]] Hall, and [[/strikethrough]] The remainder of that month was devoted almost entirely to the special duties assigned me by the Secretary connected with the changes in the retiring rooms and sanitary arrangements in the Smithsonian Building together with the plans for the purchase of the isolated incandescent electric light plant since installed in the Smithsonian Institution with a capacity of 200 16 cp lamps.