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11. PLEASE PRESENT ANY PLANS WHICH YOU MAY HAVE IN VIEW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR DEPARTMENT.

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I could fill pages [[strikethrough]]in[[/strikethrough]] [[^with]] schemes for the development of [[strikethrough]]my[[/strikethrough]] plans for the advancement of my Department and could elaborate several things which are important, but I confine myself to a statement of what I deem necessities.

1. No amount of labor can ever make my hall present an attractive appearance until the walls shall have been painted.  This has been a pressing necessity for many years.  I believe there is none more so in the entire Museum, nor is there any which would so well repay the expenditure.

2. We are absolutely without place in which to store the current accessions, except on the floor, in cases, or in drawers under the cases.  One third the floor-space is now roped off from the public and used for deposit of specimens, pending their examination and installation.  I ask for drawers under the single cases with glass doors.

3. [[^"]]The collection in this Department has now increased to 203,420 objects; [[strikethrough]]I have always been in favor of this increase.[[/strikethrough]]  The benefit to science of such a collection is by enabling the [[strikethrough]]A[[/strikethrough]][[^a]]rchaeologist and [[strikethrough]]A[[/strikethrough]][[^a]]nthropologist to write a history of the Pre-historic man.  In [[strikethrough]]E[[/strikethrough]][[^e]]thnological collections and objects relating to primitive peoples of modern times, the study of the people's habits and customs, and the writing of their history, can be done by the historian personally visiting the tribes and obtaining his information at first hand.  But in collections relating to pre-historic peoples this cannot be done, and we are driven, [[strikethrough]]the world is driven[[/strikethrough]], to a study of the implements, objects, monuments, &c.,