REPORT OF THE 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



C. G. ABBOT 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1932 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonia/n Institution. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith my report 

 showing the activities and condition of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the Government bureaus under its administrative charge during 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1932. The first 14 pages contain a 

 summary account of the affairs of the Institution. Appendixes 1 

 to 11 give more detailed reports of the operations of the United 

 States National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Interna- 

 tional Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical 

 Observatory, the Division of Radiation and Organisms, the United 

 States Regional Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature, the Smithsonian library, and of the publications issued 

 under the direction of the Institution. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



OUTSTANDING EVENTS OF THE TEAR 



Preliminary plans have been completed for the wings authorized 

 in 1930 to be added to the Natural History Building of the National 

 Museum; appropriations have not yet been made, however, to begin 

 construction. An unrestricted bequest of $100,000 was received for 

 the endowment funds of the Institution from the late Dwight W. 

 Morrow. Two $2,500 Research Corporation awards were made 

 through the Institution to Doctors Douglass and Ajitevs. Two nota- 

 ble public lectures were given at the Institution, the first Arthur 

 Lecture by Dr. Henry Norris Russell and the sixth Hamilton Lec- 

 ture by Dr. Albert Charles Seward. Volume 12, the last volume of 

 the Smithsonian Scientific Series, was sent to the printer near the 

 close of the year. The fifth revised edition of the Smithsonian 

 Meteorological Tables and the fourth reprint of the Smithsonian 



