. A bird's eye view of our federal government . considering thelimitation of their means. There is a proposal to expandthe national museum at Washington and make therein, atgovernment expense, a vast collection of American antiqui-ties and relics of ancient peoples of the western others, Prof Powell, director of the geological survey,is an enthusiastic champion of the project, which he urgeson the ground that England, France and Germany are pay- 106. Who is the commissioner of agriculture and what are his duties? 107. Give the history of the Smithsonian Institution. What is it
. A bird's eye view of our federal government . considering thelimitation of their means. There is a proposal to expandthe national museum at Washington and make therein, atgovernment expense, a vast collection of American antiqui-ties and relics of ancient peoples of the western others, Prof Powell, director of the geological survey,is an enthusiastic champion of the project, which he urgeson the ground that England, France and Germany are pay- 106. Who is the commissioner of agriculture and what are his duties? 107. Give the history of the Smithsonian Institution. What is its purpose?What is said of the national museum ? OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 89 JDg great attention to American antiquities and making far moreextensive collections than any of the American nations, theUnited States only excepted; and they are vying with the UnitedStates in this matter by sending expeditions to American coastsand to the interior of the country for this purpose. The muse-ums of London, Paris and Berlin already contain large and val-. S. P. LANGLEY,Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. [Prof. Langley was horn at Roxbury, Mass., in 1834. He is best knownas an astronomer, having written much on that subject, and havingtauglit the science at Harvard, at the Naval academy at Annapolis,Md.,and at Pittsburg. He had been connected with the Smithsonian Insti-tution for some time before the death, in 1887, of his predecessor in of-fice, Spencer F. Baird.^ able collections of our antiquities, and the materials of earlyAmerican history are rapidly being carried away to other lands.^ 108. The Civil Service Commission. The civil service commission was appointed under the 90 OUE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Pendleton civil service reform bill passed in December, bill authorized the appointment of a commission of threeto aid the president in drafting rules for the administrationof the civil service. The rules are designed, under the law,to establish admission to the service by
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