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I'age. 

 The Smithsonian Institution— Contiuned. 



Miscellaneous 20 



Statue of Professor Baird 20 



Grau ts iu aid of the physical sciences , 20 



Assignment of rooms for scientific work 21 



Toner lecture fund 21 



American Historical Association 21 



Bureau of Fine Arts 22 



Capron collection of Japanese works of art 21} 



The World's Fair Exposition, Chicago, 1892 23 



Stereotype plates 24 



Correspondence 24 



Repi'oentative relations 25 



United States Nationa l Museum 26 



Increase of the Museum collections 26 



Catalogue of Museum entries 28 



Cooperation of Departments of Government 28 



Distribution of duplicate specimens 29 



Museum publications 29 



Assistance to students -- '30 



Special researches 30 



Museum Library 31 



Museum labels 31 



Meetings and lectures 31 



Visitors 31 



Extension of hours for visiting Museum 31 



Museum personnel 32 



Explorations 32 



The department of living animals 33 



National Zoological Pai:k 34 



Bureau of Ethnology 42 



Nkckology 43 



Appendices - 47 



Appendix I. Report of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology 47 



II. Report of the Curator of Exchanges 55 



III. Report of the Acting Manager of the National Zoological 



Park .". 64 



IV. Report of the Librarian 75 



V. Report on Publications for the year 79 



VI. Report on Professor Morley's Researches. 83 



VII. Report on International Congress of Orientalists H5 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Advertisement 95 



The Squaring of the Circle, by Herman Schubert 97 



Progress of Astronomy for 1889-'90, by William C. Winlock 121 



Mathematical Theories of the Earth, by Robert S. Woodward 183 



Physical Structure of the Earth, by Henry Hennessy 201 



Glacial Geology, by James Geikie 221 



History of the Niagara River, by G. K. Gilbert 231 



The Mediterranean, Physical and Historical, by Sir R. L. Play fair 259 



Stanley and the Map of Africa 277 



