CONTENTS 



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List of officials v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 6 



The Board of Regents 6 



Finances 7 



Visitors 7 



Reports of branches of the Institution: 



United States National Museum 9 



Bureau of American Ethnology -- 48 



Astrophysical Observatory 83 



National Collection of Fine Arts 97 



Freer Gallery of Art 106 



National Air Museum 119 



National Zoological Park 131 



Canal Zone Biological Area 172 



International Exchange Service 177 



National Gallery of Art 186 



Report on the library 199 



Report on publications 202 



Other activities: 



Lectures 211 



Bio-Sciences Information Exchange 211 



Smithsonian Museum Service 212 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 214 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



The science of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, by W. F. G. Swann 229 



The origin and nature of the moon, by Harold C. Urey 251 



Exploring the solar system by radar, by Paul E. Green, Jr., and Gordon H. 



Pettengill 267 



Digital computers: Their history, operation, and use, by E. M. McCorraick. 281 



Navigation — From canoes to spaceships, by Charles S. Draper 301 



Photography of the ocean floor, by A. S. Laughton 319 



History of a tsunami, by Elliott B. Roberts 327 



Hailstorms and hailstones of the western Great Plains, by Vincent J. 



Schaefer 341 



The 1959-60 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, by Donald H. Richter and 



Jerry P. Eaton -_. 349 



Diamonds, by H. J. Logie 357 



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