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 Report of the Secretary— Continued. 



Explorations 43 



E. W. Nelson, Northwestern Alaska 44 



L. M. Turner, Aleutian Islands 41 



Capt. L. A. Beardslee, Alaska 44 



Captain Bailey, North Pacific 45 



Lieutenant DeLong, " The Jeannette," Arctic seas 45 



Prof. D. S. Jordan, Pacific Coast 45 



S. T. Walker, west coast of Florida 46 



James W. Milner, west coast of Florida 46 



Silas Stearns, Mexico 4g 



R. Ridgway, eastern shore of Virginia 46 



F. A. Oher, West Indies 47 



Prof. J. B. Steere, Amazon River 47 



Dr. C. J. Hering, Surinam 47 



Dr. Otto Finsch, Polynesia 47 



Exchanges 48 



Foreign agencies employed 48 



Commission francaise des ^changes intcrnationaux 48 



Charge made to government hureaus 49 



Free transportation 50 



Statistics for ten years 51 



Foreign institutions in correspondence 51 



Exchange of government documents 52 



International exchange in 1879 52 



Library 52 



Statement of additions in 1879 53 



Titles of some of the more valuable works received 53 



Correspondence 57 



Co-operation of the departments , 57 



Co-operation of the Institution in the work of others 57 



Communication from the Belgian Government in regard to a prize for 



the improvement of harbors 58 



Centennial Commission 59 



Armenian history 59 



Manitoba library 60 



Zoological Society of London 60 



Gallery of Art 60 



List of articles deposited in Corcoran Art Gallery in 1879 61 



Buildings 61 



Smithsonian Institution 61 



Art building and laboratory 62 



Armory 62 



Special donations 63 



Fire-ex tinguisher 63 



Herring safe 63 



Yale Lock Company, post-office box 63 



Meetings 63 



National Academy of Sciences 63 



A nt hropological Society of Washington 64 



Lectures by Prof. C. S. Hastings on astronomical physics- 64 



Death of employe's and collaborators 64 



Tobias N. Woltz 64 



Fielding B. Meek 64 



Dr. James Aitken Meigs 64 



