REPOflT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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Number of risttnrs to the Mnwnin and Smithsonian hidldinga since the o]ieinii<i of the 



former in 1881. 



Year. 



1881 



1882 



1883 



1884 (half year) 



1884-85a 



1885-86. 



1886-87 



1887-88 



1889-90 .... 

 1890-91 .... 

 1891-92 .... 

 1892-93"... 

 1893-94 .... 

 1894-95 .... 

 1895-96 .... 

 1896-97 0... 

 1897-98 . . . . 

 1898-99 . . . . 

 1899-1900 . . 

 1900-1901". 



1901-2 



1902-3 



Total . 



Museum 

 building. 



150, 000 

 167,455 

 202,188 

 97, 661 

 205,026 

 174,225 

 216, 562 

 249, 665 

 374, 843 

 274, 324 

 286, 426 

 269, 825 

 319, 930 

 195, 748 

 201, 744 

 180, 505 

 229, 606 

 177,254 

 192, 471 

 225, 440 

 216,556 

 173, 888 

 315, 307 



Smithsonian 

 building. 



5, 096 649 



100,000 

 152, 744 

 104,823 



45, 565 

 105, 993 



88, 960 



98,552 

 102, 863 

 149,618 

 120, 894 

 111,669 

 114, 817 

 174, 188 

 103, 910 

 105, 658 

 103, 650 

 115, 709 



99, 273 

 116, 912 

 133, 147 

 151,563 

 144, 107 

 181, 174 



2, 725, 789 



a Years of Presidential inauguration. 



MEETINGS AND LECTURES. 



In accordance with the custom of previous years, certain scientific 

 societies and other bodies were allowed the use of the lecture hall in 

 the Museum building for the purpose of holding meetings and giving 

 lectures, as follows: 



On September 26, 1902, the associates and friends of Maj. John 

 Wesley Powell gathered here to commemorate the life and services of 

 this distinguished public man, the founder and director of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology and for some time Director of the Geological 

 Survey, whose lamented death occurred but three days before. 



From November 18 to 20 a national conference of the various Audo- 

 bon societies of the United States was held, in conjunction with the 

 American Ornithologists'' Union. 



On November 22 Prof. John Ritchie, jr., of the Yerkes Observa- 

 tory, delivered under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution an 

 interesting lecture on Recent Celestial Photography. 



On November 25 Dr. L. O. Howard, Entomologist of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Honorary Curator of Insects in the National 

 Museum, lectured on the subject of Entomology before an audience 

 composed largely of officers of the United States Army and Navy. 



