CONTENTS 



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List of officials xi 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



Outstanding events of the year 1 



The establishment 2 



The Board of Regents 2 



Finances 3 



Matters of general interest 6 



Dwight W. Morrow bequest 6 



Research Corporation awards to Doctors Douglass and Antevs 6 



Lectures 6 



Smithsonian Scientific Series 7 



Cooperative ethnological and archeological investigations 7 



Explorations and field work 8 



Publications 8 



Library 9 



Governmentally supported branches 9 



National Museum 9 



National Gallery of Art 10 



Freer Gallery of Art ' 10 



Bureau of American Ethnology 10 



International Exchanges 11 



National Zoological Park 11 



Astrophysical Observatory ^ 12 



Division of Radiation and Organisms ' 12 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 12 



Necrology 13 



Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum 15 



2. Report on the National Gallery of Art 29 



3. Report on the Freer Gallery of Art 34 



4. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 39 



5. Report on the International Exchange Service 46 



6. Report on the National Zoological Park 51 



7. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 62 



8. Report on the Division of Radiation and Organisms 66 



9. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 



ture 73 



10. Report on the library 75 



11. Report on publications 84 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 91 



Proceedings of the Board of Regents 99 



> In part govermeiitally supported. 



