CONTENTS 



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List of officials ^ v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 4 



The Board of Regents 5 



Finances ^ 5 



Visitors 6 



Reports of branches of the Insitution: 



United States National Museum 8 



Bureau of American Ethnology 42 



Astrophysical Observatory 71 



National Collection of Fine Arts 94 



Freer Gallery of Art 105 



National Air Museum 121 



National Zoological Park 132 



Canal Zone Biological Area 180 



International Exchange Service 186 



National Gallery of Art 196 



Report on the library 211 



Report on publications 215 



Other activities: 



Lectures 223 



Science Information Exchange 223 



Smithsonian Museum Service 224 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 227 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



Aircraft propulsion: A review of the evolution of aircraft powerplants, by 



C. Fayette Taylor 245 



Rocket propulsion, by Ralph S. Cooper 299 



The early history of radar, by R. M. Page 315 



Modern glass, by S. Donald Stookey_ 323 



The great earthquakes of May 1960 in Chile, by Pierre Saint- Amand 337 



The rim of the reef, by E. Yale Dawson 365 



What's happening to water? by Charles J. Robinove 375 



The opening of the Arctic Ocean, by Lt. Comdr. James T. Strong 391 



The place of genetics in modern biology, by George W. Beadle 399 



The shark that hibernates, by L. Harrison Matthews 415 



Man in a world of insects, by Dwight M. DeLong 423 



Tropical fruit-fly menace, by L. D. Christenson 441 



The soil as a habitat for life, by Sir John Russell.. 449 



The evolution of the echinoderms, by H. Barraclough Fell 457 



Mangroves: Trees that make land, by William M. Stephens 491 



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