Report on the Progress and Condition of the U.S. National Museum for the Year Ending June 30 ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911
 

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Page 7 - BY RICHARD RATHBUN, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the U. 8. National Mu&eum. INCEPTION AND HISTORY. The Congress of the United States...
Page 9 - ... properly and usefully meanwhile be occupied during the sessions of Congress as an exhibition room for the works of artists generally; and the extent and general usefulness of such an exhibition might probably be increased if an arrangement could be effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts-Union, the Artists' Fund 'Society, and other associations of similar character, so as to concentrate at the metropolis for a certain portion of each winter the best results of talent in the fine arts.
Page 37 - Specimens were distributed for educational purposes or to be added to museum collections as follows: Mammals to the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, and to the Museum of the City of Portland, Oregon; birds to the Normal School, Washington, District of Columbia; fishes from the Albatross explorations in the southern and eastern Pacific Ocean, to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and fishes and marine invertebrates to Muhlenberg College; insects to the British Museum, the American...
Page 47 - These several collections include specimens of very widely separated periods of artistic development, beginning before the birth of Christ and ending to-day. No attempt has been made to secure specimens from unsympathetic sources, my collecting having been confined to American and Asiatic schools. My great desire has been to unite modern work with masterpieces of certain periods of high civilization harmonious in spiritual and physical suggestion, having the power to broaden esthetic culture and...
Page 7 - It is interesting to note how broad and comprehensive were the views which actuated our lawmakers in determining the scope of the Museum, a fact especially remarkable when it is recalled that at that date no museum of considerable size existed in the United States, and the museums of England and of the continent of Europe were still to a large extent without a developed plan, although containing many rich collections. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope...
Page 9 - The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural designs ; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more studios, in which young artists might copy without interruption, being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe. Your committee also think that as the collection of paintings and sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for a gallery of art might properly and usefully...
Page 3 - SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present condition of the United States National Museum, and upon the work accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910.
Page 13 - For the completion of the new building of the United States National Museum and its surroundings, namely, the construction of roads and walks, grading and sodding, construction of a waterproof granolithic platform along the outer walls of the building, and the painting of the interior walls of the building, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, seventyseven thousand dollars.
Page 110 - By | Richard Rathbun | Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the | United States National Museum | (Seal) | Washington |Government Printing Office | 1909 8vo., July 1, 1909, pp.
Page 137 - It is believed by the writer that these objects, straight, bent, or coiled, were more probably organs of defense or attack, arranged along the back near the dorsal fins. On the manner of locomotion of the dinosaurs, especially Diplodocus, with remarks on the origin of the birds.

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