Note 15 — Chapter V · GIANTS OF THE FEATHERED WORLD.

This is true of the United States National Museum, at Washington, where the customary appropriation for securing specimens is $10,000 per year. At this national institution it is not rare for employees to draw upon their own small resources in order to secure particularly desirable collections. The same condition is to be found in other museums of the country, excepting the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It, though privately endowed, is housed by the city of New York, and is the largest and best supported museum in the western hemisphere.