The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . nology and American history, andnumbers at the present time over ,000 speci-mens. It has also been charged for the Smith-sonian Institution with representation at variousinternational expositions, whereby its methodshave been made known and the spread of mu-seums generally greatly furthered. The Institu-tion has been represented at Philadelphia in1876, at Berlin in 1880, at London, Louisville,and Cincinnati in 1883, at New Orleans in 188
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . nology and American history, andnumbers at the present time over ,000 speci-mens. It has also been charged for the Smith-sonian Institution with representation at variousinternational expositions, whereby its methodshave been made known and the spread of mu-seums generally greatly furthered. The Institu-tion has been represented at Philadelphia in1876, at Berlin in 1880, at London, Louisville,and Cincinnati in 1883, at New Orleans in 1885,at Paris in 1889, at Chicago in 1893, at Atlantain 189s, at Nashville in 1897, at Omaha in 1808,at Paris in 1900, at Buffalo in 1901, and atSt. Louis in 1904, and has received many medalsand diplomas upon these occasions. The Mu-seum is strongest in everything that pertains toAmerican archaeology and ethnology, naturalhistory and geology, being superior in theseregards to any other. It has also very con-siderable collections in all branches of know-ledge that lend themselves to study by specimens,and has by its methods of installation and label-. SMITHSONITE — SMOKE ing been of great service to the museums ofthe world in pointing the way to improvedmethods. I^Iany of these are due to GeorgeBrown Goode, assistant secretary in charge ofthe Museum from 1S87 to 1896. Recently aChildrens Room, which is intended to serve asa model of a small museum for interesting andinstructing children, has been established. International Exchanges.— The system of In-ternational Exchanges, begun in 1850, was de-signed for a free interchange of publicationsbetween men of science in various parts of theworld. It established a body of correspondentswhich now numbers nearly 44,000, mostly 1867 Congress assigned to the Institutionthe duty of exchanging for the benefit of theLibrary of Congress, 50 sets (a number sinceincreased to 100) of all government pub-lications, and in 1889 a treaty
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