VI CONTENTS. 



The Smithsonian Institution — Continued. Page. 



Correspondence _ 15 



Expositions 16 



Miscellaneous 16 



National INIuseum 18 



Bureau of American Ethnology 20 



Intei'national Exchanges 22 



National Zoological Park 23 



Astrophysical Observatory 24 



Necrology 27 



Appendixes: 



I. Report on the United States National jNIuseum 29 



II. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 39 



III. Rejwrt on the International Exchange Service 58 



IV. Report on the Natic )nal Zoological Park 73 



V. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 85 



VI. Report of the Librarian 97 



VII. Report of the Editor 100 



VIII. Report on Pan-American l"'xposition 110 



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GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Recent Aeronautical Progress, and deductions to be drawn therefrom, regard- 

 ing the future of Aerial Navigation, by Maj. B. F. Baden-Powell 121 



V Some Aeronautical Ex})eriments, by "Wilbur Wright 133 



Stellar Evolution in light of Recent Research, l)y Prof. George E. Hale 149 



A New Solar Theory, by Prof. J. Halm 165 



An Experimental Investigation of the Pressure of Light, by Peter Lebedew 177 



Comets' Tails, the Corona, and the Aurora Borealis, by Prof. Jolm Cox 179 



"Good Seeing," by S. P. Langley 193 



On the Radio-activity of Matter, l)y Henri Becquerel 197 



History of Cold and the Absolute Zero, by Prof. James Dewar 207 



Experimental Phonetics, by Prof. John G. McKendrick 241 



_^_ Wireless Telegraphy — its past and present status and ])rospects, by William 



Maver, jr 261 



Telpherage, by Charles M. C'lark 275 



The Evolution of Petrological Ideas, by J. J. I larris Teall 287 



Preliminary RejHJrt on the Recent Eruption of the Soufriere in St. Vincent, 

 and of a visit to INIont Pelee, in Martinicjue, by Temi)est Anderson and John 



S. Flett 309 



Volcanic Eruptions on Martiniijue and St. Vincent, by Israel C. Russell 331 



The Progress of Geographical Knowledge, by Col. Sir T. H. Holdich 351 



' The Discovery of the Future, by II. G. Wells 375 



The Life of Matter, by A. Dastre 393 



The Craniology of ]\hm and Anthropoid Apes, by N. C. IMacnamara 431 



The I>aouss(''-Rousse Explorations: Study of a new human tyjie by M. Verneau, 



by All)ert Gaudry 451 



Fossil Human Remains found n(>ar Lansing, Kansas, I )y W. 11. liohnes 455 



The Wild Tribes of the INlalay Peninsula, by W. W. Skeat 463 



The Pygmies of the Great Congo Forest, by Sir Harry H. Johnston 479 



Guam and its People, by W. E. Safford 493 



Oriental Elements of (^ulture in the ( )('ci(l('iit, bv I>r. ( Jeorg Jacob 509 



