...National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. National Mueeum. Furniture, etc. Heating, etc. collec" ment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary...

...Smithsonian Institution: For all necessary expenses for the preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government and from other sources; for the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries; for anthropological...

...fund, but it turns out otherwise. Mr. GILLETT. I would like to ask you just one question. It says here: "For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and...expeditions of the Government, and from other sources." Does that mean to buy? Mr. RATHBUN. Yes. it does; but the committee agreed four or five years ago to...

...PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS, 1903. Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, "for continuing the preservation, exhibition, and...exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other source*, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand...

...June .30, 1001, " for continuing tlie preservation, exhibition, ami increase of the collections from surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government,...including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $180,<H)0, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for...

...COLLECTIONS-NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, "for continuing the preservation, exhibition, and...including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, $180,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary...

...NATIONAL MUSEUM, 18O(i. RECEIPTS. Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June .'5O, 1900 : " For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase...exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other *ources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses,...

...making repairs, and telephone operator. PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS. The CHAIRMAN. The next item is, "For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and...including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and all other necessary expenses," and your appropriation for this year is $300,000 and your...

...which have come in. PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS. | See also p. 516.] The CHAIRMAN. The next item is, "For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the survej'ing and exploring expeditions of the Government and from other sources," etc. Please give the...

...this year, and we want to spend another $5,000 toward it next year. The CHAIRMAN*. The next item is for continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase...surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government. Mr. UATHBUN. Mr. Chairman, if you will allow me, it is desired to inquire of the committee as to the...