CONTENTS 



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List of officials v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 5 



The Board of Regents 5 



Finances 6 



Visitors 6 



Smithsonian Bicentennial 7 



Joseph Henry Papers 7 



Opening of Museum of History and Technology 9 



Langley Medal Presentation 9 



Lectures 10 



The Kennedy Center 10 



National Armed Forces Museum Advisory Board -- H 



Science Information Exchange 12 



Smithsonian Museum Service 14 



Reports of branches of the Institution: 



United States National Museum 18 



International Exchange Service 69 



Bureau of American Ethnology 80 



National Zoological Park HI 



Astrophysical Observatory 157 



National Collection of Fine Arts 190 



Freer Gallery of Art 201 



National Gallery of Art 217 



Canal Zone Biological Area 231 



National Air Museum 236 



John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 247 



National Portrait Gallery 257 



Report on the Library 261 



Report on Publications and Information 265 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 274 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



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The Quest for Life Beyond the Earth, by Carl Sagan.._ 297 



The Secret of Stonehenge, by Gerald S. Hawkins 307 



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

 zation, Part 3, by E. Nelson Hayes 315 



How Mountains Are Formed, by R. A, Lyttleton 351 



The Future of Oceanography, by Athelstan Spilhaus 361 



Search for the Thresher, by F, N. Spiess and A. E. Maxwell 373 



Recent Events in Relativity, by Milton A, Rothman 385 



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