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truding itself. Some special and valuable exhibits * * * already suffer from insufficient or unsuitable presentation * * *. In fact that is no avoiding the conclusion that the whole of the office rooms on the first floor * * * now occupied by the Record and Pension Division should pass into my control for the use of the growing Library and Museum for which the whole building was originally constructed * * *. I therefore earnestly recommend that provision be made elsewhere for the work of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department and that justice may be done to the intent for which this building was constructed.

In the report for the next fiscal year, 1889-90, the recommendation is repeated with equal earnestness, and a like lack of success in securing the use of the entire building for Library and Museum purposes. In support of his request, The Surgeon General said, erroneously, that the building had been erected at a cost of only one-half of the estimates, resulting in a reduction in its dimensions and facilities.