INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, PHILADELPHIA, 187G. 



The United States Centennial Commission Las examined the following 

 reports of the judges and accepted the following reasons, and decreed 

 an award in conformity therewith. 



FRANCIS A. WALKER, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Awards. 



Given by authority of the United States Centennial Commission. 



A. T. GOSHORN, 



Director- General. 

 J. R. HAWLEY, 



President. 

 J. L. CAMPBELL, 



Secretary. 



REPORT ON AWARDS. 



I.— PUBLICATIONS, COLLECTIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY, 

 AND ARCHAEOLOGY r . 



TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



" The importance of the scientific work done by the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution and the great value of its publications are everywhere ac- 

 knowledged. The exhibits representing its museum, now known as the 

 ' National Museum,' are very extensive and of very high merit. This 

 statement is made, not witnout regret that the funds of the Institution 

 are inadequate to a yet larger work in the many important fields it has 

 occupied, and in the hope that, to the end of such enlargement of its 

 labors, the Government of the United States will early relieve the In- 

 stitution of the necessity to use any portion of a fund consecrated to 

 ' the increase and diffusion of knowledge ' for the maintenance of a mu- 

 seum intended primarily to represent the resources of the United 

 States." 



II.— MAPS, BOOKS, AND COLLECTION OF THE ANIMAL AND 

 MINERAL PRODUCTS OE THE UNITED STATES. 



TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



"Its successful efforts for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, as 

 shown by its researches, publications, and system of international ex- 

 changes, and its display of the animal and mineral resources of the 

 United States." 

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