REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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beeu completed, and also for those at the Signal-Service stations by per- 

 uiissiou of General Myer, Chief Signal-Oflicer, from 1872 to 1874 inclu- 

 sive, also for Army stations for the last six mouths of 1874, and for 

 Canadian stations from 1872 to 1874 complete. 



For the exhibition of the results of the meteorological labors of the 

 Institution at the Centennial Exhibition, an outline map IG by 12 feet has 

 been prepared. This map will be of use to the lecturer and to the different 

 •departments of the Government iu exhibiting on a large scale the results 

 of various statistical inquiries. Already a number of different parties 

 have applied for copies, for which such a charge will be made as to con- 

 siderably diminish the cost to the Institution of the original production 

 of the map. 



INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES. 



This system has beeu prosecuted during the past year with unabated 

 energy, and the results have been commensurate with the labor ex- 

 liended. As an evidence of the high estimation in which this branch of 

 the operations of the Institution is regarded, as well as to give proper 

 credit to the parties svho have transmitted free of cost the packages of 

 the Institution, we reprint, as usual, the following list of their names : 



Cunard Steamship Comiiany. 



Anchor Steamship Company. 



Pacitic Mail Steamship Company. 



Panama Eailroad Company. 



Pacific Steam Navigation Compa- 

 ny. 



Kew York and Mexico Steamship 

 Company. 



New York and Brazil Steamship 

 Company. 



North German Lloyd Steam shij) 

 Company. 



Hamburg American Packet Com- 

 pany. 



French Transatlantic Company. 



North Baltic Lloyd Steamship 

 Company. 



Inman Steamship Company. 



The special thanks of the Institution are again tendered to the above- 

 mentioned companies for their enlightened liberality. 



It should also be mentioned that Messrs. Prin, Trowand «& Co., of New 

 York, agents of the Atlas Steamship Company, have made a very lib- 

 eral concession to the Institution in the reduction of charges for trans- 

 mission of ])arcels to the West Indies; one dollar in gold being charged 

 for any package not exceeding three cubic feet in measurement, instead 

 of the usual charge, three times this sum. 



The following are the foreign centers of reception and distribution of 

 the Smithsonian exchanges : 



London — William Wesley, 28 Essex street, Strand. 



Paris — G. Bossange, 16 rue du 4 Septembre. 



Lei[)sic — Dr. Felix Fliigel, 41) Sidonien Strasse. 



St. Petersburg — L. Watkins & Co., 10 Admiralty Place. 



Amsterdam — F. Muller. Ueerengracht kk, No. 130. 



