CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Letter from the secretary, submitting the annual report of the Regents 



to Congress 3 



Contents of the report 5 



List of plates 7 



General subjects of the annual report 9 



Officials of the institution and its branches 11 



EKPOBT OF THE KECKETAIiY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 13 



The Establishment 13 



The Board of Regents 14 



General considerations 14 



Finances 16 



Researches and explorations : 



Geological explorations in the Canadian Rockies 19 



Paleontological field work 19 



The Collins-Garner French Congo Expedition 20 



The Smithsonian African Expedition 20 



Australian Expedition 21 



Anthropological researches in the Far East 22 



Botanical exploration in Haiti 22 



Botanical expedition to British Guiana 2.°> 



Botanical exploration in Glacier National Park, Mont 24 



Botanical exploration in Jamaica 25 



Explorations in Santo Domingo 25 



Lectures 26 



Cinchona Botanical Station 26 



Exhibition of South American historical documents 27 



Research in tropical America 27 



Publications 27 



Library 29 



National Museum 29 



Bureau of American Ethnology 31 



International Exchanges 32 



National Zoological Park 33 



Astrophysical Observatory 34 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 35 



Necrology 36 



Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum 37 



2. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 57 



3. Report on the International Exchanges 73 



4. Report on the National Zoological Park 85 



5. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 101 



6. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature _ 108 



7. Report on the library 112 



8. Report on publications 117 



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