VI CONTENTS. 



Page. 



The Smithsonian Institi'tion — Continued. 



Buildings 6 



Research 7 



Asti'o-pliysical Observatory 8 



Explorations 10 



Pu))lications 10 



Internal Exchange Service 12 



Library 15 



Miscellaneous 16 



Tomb of Smithson 16 



Statue of Prof. Baird 16 



Statue of Robert Dale Owen 16 



Peildns collection of copper implements 16 



Stereotype plates 16 



Use of Government collections 16 



Assignment of rooms 16 



Hodgkins donation 17 



United States National Museum '". 20 



Bureau of Ethnology 27 



United States National Zoidogical Park 28 



Necrology 45 



Appendixes 49 



Appendix I. Report of the Director of the Bui-eau of Ethnology 49 



II. Report of the Ciirator of Exchanges 59 



III. Repent of tlie Acting Manager of the National Zoological 



Park 69 



IV. Report of the Acting Librarian 74 



V. Report of the Editor SO 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Advertisement 87 



Meteorological work of the Smithsonian Institution <S9 



The History of the Telescope, by C. S. Hastings 95 



Geological Change, and Time, by Archibald Geike Ill 



Geological History of the Yellowstone National Park, by Arnold Hague 133 



Soaping Geysers, by Arnold Hague 153 



Continental Problems of Geology, by G. K. Gilbert 163 



Pre-Columbian Copper-mining in North America, l)y R. L. Packard 175 



The Polynesian Bow, by E. Tregear. 199 



Hertz's Experiments 203 



Discharge of Electricity without Electrodes, by ,7 . J. Tliomson 229 



Molecular Process in Magnetic Induction, by J. A. Ewing 255 



Crystallization, by G. D. Liveing 269 



Rejuvenescence of Crystals, by John AV. Judd 281 



Deduction from Gaseous Theory of Solution, by Orme Masson 289 



Suggestions Regarding Solutions, by William Ramsay 299 



Liquids and Gases, by William Ramsay 303 



Present Problems in Evolution and Heredity, by H. F. Osborn 313 



Report on the Migration of Birds, by J. A. Palmdn 375 



The Empire of the Air, by L. P. Mouillard 397 



Progress of Anthropology in 1892, by O. T. Mason 465 



The Advent of Man in America, by A. de Quatrefages 513 



Primitive Industry, by Thomas Wilson 521 



