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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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spicuous in art, science, or literature throughout the world. Its publications are in three principal issues,namely : The Contributions to Knowledge, the Miscellaneous Collections, and theAnnual Report. Numerous works are published annually by it, under one of theseforms, and distributed to its principal correspondents. There was early begun a system of international exchanges of correspondence andpublications, which forms a sort of clearing-house for the scientific world in its dealingswith Americans; and there is no civilized country or people on the globe where theInstitution is not represented by its correspondents, who now number about 24,000.The immediate benefit to the Institution itself has been in enabling it to build up a greatscientific library of over 300,000 titles and mainly deposited in the Library of Congress. The Smithsonian Building, of Seneca brownstone, was planned by James Renwick,the architect whose best known work, perhaps, is St. Patricks Cathedral in New York.
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.—The Mail, near 8 and Tenth Streets, S. W. FEOM THE MONUMENT TO THE MUSEUMS. 123 It was completed in 1855. Features selected from the Gothic and Romanesque stylesare combined in its architecture, but its exterior, owing chiefly to the irregular sky line,is very picturesque and pleasing. For the purposes of exhibition of specimens andlaboratory work, however, the building is badly lighted, wasteful of space, and other-wise unsuitable. The eastern wing was for many 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 BurCd

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