CONTENTS 



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List of officials xi 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



Outstanding events of the year _ 1 



The establislnnent 2 



The Board of Regents 2 



Finances 3 



Matters of general interest 7 



Award of Langley Medal to Charles Matthews Manly and 



to Commander Ricliard Evelyn Byrd, United States Navy 7 



Additions to the Natural IIist(;ry Building of the National 



Museum 8 



Researches in European archives 8 



Rocket experiments of Dr. R. H. Goddard 9 



Low temperature researches 11 



Division of Radiation and Organisms 11 



Explorations and field work 12 



Cooperative ethnological and archeological investigations 13 



Publications 14 



Smithsonian Scientific Series 15 



Library 15 



Governmcntally supported branches 16 



National Museum 16 



National Gallery of Art 18 



Freer Gallery of Art ' 18 



Bureau of American Ethnology 10 



International Exchanges 19 



National Zoological Park 20 



Astrophysical Observatory ' 20 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 21 



Necrology 21 



Appendix 1. Report on the LInited States National Museum 25 



2. Report on the National Gallery of Art 45 



3. Report on the Freer Gallery of Art 54 



4. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 61 



5. Report on the International Exchange Service 72 



6. Report on the National Zoological Park 84 



7. Report on the Astrophyiscal Observatory 103 



8. Report on the Division of Radiation and Organisms 115 



9. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 



ture _ 123 



10. Report on the library .., 126 



11. Report on publications 141 



12. List of subscribers to The James Smithson Memorial Edition, 



Smithsonian Scientific Series, since Nov. 15, 1929 147 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 149 



Proceedings of the Board of Regents 159 



> In part governmentally supported. 



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