CONTENTS. 



Va.se. 



Resolution of Congress to print extra copies of the Report ii 



Letter from the Secretary, submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to 



Congress ii' 



General subjects of the Annual Report . iv 



(Joutents of the Report v 



List of illustrations viii 



Members ex officio of the Establishment ix 



Officers of the Smithsonian Institution ix 



Regents of the Smithsonian Institution x 



JouuxAL OF Proceedings of the Board of Regents xi 



Report of the Executive Committee for the first six months of 1885 xv 



Condition of the funds July 1, 1885 xv 



Receipts for the six months xv 



Expenditures for the six months >^vi 



National Museum appropriations by Congress xvi 



Appropriations for Exchanges xvii 



Appropriations for Ethnology >^v'i 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



Introductory 1 



The Board of Regents 1 



Expiration of terms of Congressional Regents ~ 



Change in the time of printing the Report ^ 



Finances ^ 



Condition of the fund July 1, 1885 4 



Buildings '^> 



Smithsonian building ^ 



Armory building •'» 



Brick workshop and temporary workshop ^' 



Army Medical Museum building ^ 



Necessity of new buildings for the National Museum 7 



Explorations '^ 



Greenland, Labrador, and British Provinces " 



Alaska, Washington Territory, and west coast of United States 8 



East coast of the United States and Gulf of Mexico 8 



New Mexico and Arizona '^^ 



Central and South America '^ 



Europe 9 



V 



