CONTENTS. 



Pago. 



Resolution of Congress to print extra copies of the report ii 



Letter from the Secretary, submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to 



Congress iii 



General subjects of the Annual Report iv 



Contents of the Report v 



List of Illustrations viii 



Regents of the Smithsonian Institution x 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents xi 



Report of the Executive Committee for the year 1882 xiv 



Condition of the funds January 1, 1883 xiv 



Receipts for the year xiv 



Expenditures for the year xv 



Estimates for the year 1883 xv 



National Musuem appropriations by Congress xvi 



Appropriations for Ethnology xvi 



Appropriations for Exchanges xvii 



Members ex oflicio of the "Establishment," and Regents of the Institution .. . xix 



Officers and assistants of the Institution, and of the National Museum xx 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



Introductory 1 



The Henry Statue 1 



New Regents of the Institution 2 



Meetings of the Board of Regents 2 



Finances 3 



Condition of the fund, January, 1883 3 



Buildings 3 



Smithsonian building 3 



Steps taken toward having the east wing remodelled and fire-proofed. 4 



National Museum building , 5 



Armory building 6 



Laboratory of Natural History 7 



Need of an additional Museum building 7 



Meetings of Scientific Bodies 10 



Routine work of the Institution 11 



Administration 11 



Correspondence 11 



Researches and Explorations 11 



Greenland 13 



Labrador 13 



Arctic Ocean 14 



Alaska 14 



Saint Michael's 15 



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