REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



C. G. ABBOT 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1933 



To the Board of Regents oj the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit herewith my report 

 showing the activities and condition of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the Government bureaus under its administrative charge during 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1933. In part 1 the first 11 pages 

 contain a summary account of the affairs of the Institution, and 

 appendixes 1 to 10 give more detailed reports of the operations of the 

 National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the National 

 Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, the Division of 

 Radiation and Organisms, the United States Regional Bureau of 

 the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the Smithsonian 

 Library, and of the publications issued under the direction of the 

 Institution; part 2 contains the report of the United States National 

 Museum, hitherto a separate document. On page 188 is the financial 

 report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents, hitherto a 

 separate document. 



PART 1. REPORT ON THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 

 AND ALL THE BUREAUS UNDER ITS DIRECTION EX- 

 CEPT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SUMMARY OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES 



Outstanding events. — Mr. Eldridge R. Johnson placed his yacht and 

 a considerable sum of money at the disposal of the Institution for the 

 first of a series of scientific cruises in the interests of oceanography. 

 The first cruise, covering the Puerto Rican deep, returned in March 

 1933, with highly gratifying results, which will later be described in 

 Smithsonian pu])lications. The Gellatly collection of art objects, 

 valued at $4,000,000, given to the Institution by John Gellatly, was 

 safely transferred from New York to Wasliington and is now on 

 public exhibition in the National Gallery of Art. Through the 

 generous aid of Mr. John A. Roebling, a new astrophysical observing 



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