. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1959. Remodeled natural history halls showing animals and birds in their natural habitat require the manufacture of tens of thousands of leaves, s^cisses, blossoms, and other accessories. Formerly made by tediously cutting them from paper or by modeling them in wax, these are now more accurately the uses of atomic energy; machines and processes of petroleum production, and changing exhibits of metalworking and other industrial processes. These exhibits have been grouped into coord
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 1959. Remodeled natural history halls showing animals and birds in their natural habitat require the manufacture of tens of thousands of leaves, s^cisses, blossoms, and other accessories. Formerly made by tediously cutting them from paper or by modeling them in wax, these are now more accurately the uses of atomic energy; machines and processes of petroleum production, and changing exhibits of metalworking and other industrial processes. These exhibits have been grouped into coordinated combinations to present broad subject fields such as transportation or the production, distribution, and applica- tions of power, elements of which appear in several halls. The first floor has a bus entrance on the south side at the same level which is entirely sheltered and is designed to accommodate the many elementary and high school classes which will arrive from all parts of the country. Large windows looking into the loco- motive hall on the east and into the atomic energy and agricultural implements halls in the north will permit some sections of the museum to be viewed even when the building is closed. The second floor is also entered at street level, in this instance, from Madison Drive on the Mall. Thus, the museum will have the distinct advantage of having two of its three great general exhibition floors at street level, entered without steps. The visitor who enters this floor from Madison Drive or who comes ui:) directly from the first floor entrances will start his tour in the imposing flag hall in which the Star-Spangled Banner will be enshrined. This great flag, dramatically lighted and unobstructed, will introduce the museum's thousands of daily visitors to the historical exhibits. On this floor the history of the United States will be illustrated in a scries of halls, chronologically arranged. These will exhibit outstanding and selected objects such as w
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