CONTENTS 



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Contents iii 



Introduction 1 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



The Establishment 1 



The Board of Regents 2 



Administration 2 



Finances 3 



Buildings 5 



Research 6 



Explorations 7 



Publications 8 



Library 9 



Hodgkins fund 10 



Miscellaneous : 



Naples table 14 



Seal of the Institution Hi 



Lunar photography 16 



Delegates to universities and learned societies 17 



Assignment of rooms 17 



American Historical Association 17 



.Stereotype plates and cuts 17 



Special correspondent in Paris 18 



Russian Physico-Cheniical Society 18 



Correspondence 18 



United States National Museum and the Expositions in Madrid and Chicago.. Ill 



Bureau of Ethnology 22 



International Exchanges 25 



United States National Zoloogical Park 27 



Astro-Physical < >bservatory 30 



Necrology 33 



Appendices 35 



Appendix I. The U. S. National Museum 35 



[I. Report of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology 38 



III. Report of the Curator of Exchanges 4o 



IV. Report of the acting Manager of the National Zoological 



Park 54 



V. Report upon the Astro-Physical < Hjservatory 60 



VI. Report of the Librarian 67 



All. Report of the Editor G9 



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