If! REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



*.t. The occupant of the table will have the right to share in the fish- 

 ing expeditions sent out from the station, as well as to learn the different 

 methods in use. 



10. Injuries to the instruments and utensils caused by the occupant 

 of the tabic, will be at the cost of the administration, so long as the 

 amount does not exceed L'O francs. 



11. The present contract is for the term of three years, and the 

 Smithsonian Institution promises to pay Dr. Anton Dohrn, the Direc- 

 tor of the Zoological Station, yearly in advance, the sum of 2,500 francs, 

 in gold, for the rent of the table in the laboratories of the Zoological 

 Station. 



Signed in duplicate, 

 Washington, June 9, 1893. 



S. P. Lang-ley, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Naples. May 16, 1893. 



Professor Dr. Anton Dohrn, 

 Director of the Zoological Station of Naples. 



Numerous applications for the occupancy of the table have been 

 received, but at the close of the fiscal year sufficient consideration had 

 not been given them to render it possible to make any definite assign- 

 ment. 



With a desire for the information necessary to a right administra- 

 tion of the affairs of ttie table, I have requested that all applications 

 shall be accompanied by credentials showing the qualifications of the 

 candidate to carry on original investigations in some field for which 

 especial facilities are offered at the Naples Station. These credentials 

 are to be accompanied by a scientific history of the candidate, together 

 with a list of such original papers as he may have published. 



Those appointed to the table will be expected to make a report at 

 the end of their term of occupation, or, in case of a long residence at 

 the station, to submit such a report to the Institution every three 

 months. 



Seal of the Institution. — It having been found advisable that the 

 Institution should have a new seal, a device was prepared by Mr. St. 

 G-audens, the eminent sculptor, whose aesthetic value, as compared with 

 the one it replaced, is incontestable. One of the first uses of this seal 

 was to affix it to the circular concerning" the Hodgkins gift, which has 

 just been referred to. Its use as the seal of the Institution was for- 

 mally recognized by the resolution of the Regents of January 25, 1893. 



Lunar photography. — I have been interested for a considerable time 

 in the possibility of preparing a chart of the moon by photography, 

 which would enable geologists and selenographers to study its surface 

 in their cabinets with all the details before them which astronomers 

 have at command in the use of the most powerful telescopes. 



Such a plan would have seemed chimerical a few years ago, and it is 

 still surrounded with difficulties, but it is probable that within a com- 

 paratively lew years it maybe successfully carried out. No definite 

 scale has been adopted, but it is desirable that the disk thus presented 



