Download or read book Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1952 (Classic Reprint) written by United States National Museum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1952 It has been said in a previous report that the function of the United States National Museum is to make available to the Nation the collee tions entrusted to it for safekeeping. This it does by exhibiting selected items and by organizing the remaining, and vastly larger, part of the collections into a great reference library of material objects. The effective performance of both these functions, it has been pointed out, depends on that essential element in the work Of a successful museum, research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.