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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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any years the home of Prof. Joseph Henry,the first secretary, but is now devoted to the offices of administration. The Smithsonian Institution has under its charge, but not at the expense of its ownfunds, certain bureaus which are sustained by annual appropriations. These are: TheUnited States National Museum, the Bureau of International Exchanges,the Bureau of Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- Smithsonianphysical Observatory. Of the National Museum and the Zoological Park BurCdUS. more extended notice will be found elsewhere. The Bureau of Ethnologyis a branch of the work which studies the ethnology, history, languages, and customs ofthe American Indians, and publishes the results in annual reports and occasional bulle-tins. It has been the means of collecting a vast amount of important and interestingmaterial illustrative of the primitive natives of this continent; and all this is deposited inthe National Museum. The offices of this bureau are at 1330 F Street.
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NATIONAL MUSEUM.—B Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets. In no siugle respect, perhaps, has the progress of the American capital been morestriking than in the history of the National Museum. Originating in a quantity ofcuriosities which had been given to the United States by foreignpowers, or sent home by consuls and naval officers, old visitors to Wash- National ington remember it as a heterogeneous cabinet in the Patent Office. In MusCUm. 1846 a step was taken toward something coherent and creditable, by anact of Congress establishing a National Museum, following the precedent of a dozen ormore other nations ; but this intention took effect very slowly, though various explor-ing expeditions and embassies largely increased the bulk of the collections, which, byand by, were trundled over to the Smithsonian building. 124 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. The main entrance is in the north front, and is surmounted by an allegoricalgroup of statuary, by C. Buberl of New York, representi

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