CONTENTS 



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List of oflBcials v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 20 



The Board of Regents 21 



Retirement of Dr. Kellogg 21 



National Portrait Gallery 22 



National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board 23 



Finances 24 



Visitors 24 



Replacement of Smithson plaque 24 



Reports of branches of the Institution: 



United States National Museum 27 



International Exchange Service 64 



Bureau of American Ethnology 74 



National Zoological Park 107 



Astrophysical Observatory 147 



National Collection of Fine Arts 180 



Freer Gallery of Art 191 



National Gallery of Art 206 



Canal Zone Biological Area 219 



National Air Museum 225 



National Cultural Center 234 



Report on the library 246 



Report on publications 250 



Other activities: 



Lectures 257 



Science Information Exchange 257 



Smithsonian Museum Service 258 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 261 



Index _._ 587 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



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The Solar System, by Sir Bernard Lovell 279 



Advances in Astronomical Technology, by Aden B. Meinel 293 



The Analysis of Starlight, by Bernard Pagel ; 301 



Astronomical Photography from the Stratosphere, by Martin Schwarz- 



child 323 



The Smithsonian's Satellite-tracking Program: Its History and Organi- 

 zation, Part 2, by E. Nelson Hayes 331 



The Neutrinos, by Melvin Schwartz 359 



The Antibiotics from a Botanical Viewpoint, by Kenneth L. Jones 369 



Atomic and Other Wastes in the Sea, by I. Eugene Wallen. — 381 



