CONTENTS 



Pase 



List of officials v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 5 



The Board of Regents 5 



Induction of new Secretary 6 



Finances -- " 



Appropriations ' 



Visitors "^ 



Twentieth annual James Arthur lecture on the sun 8 



James Smithson's tomb 9 



Termination of the Institute of Social Anthropology 9 



Renovation of National Collection of Fine Arts. 10 



Summary of the year's activities of the branches of the Institution 10 



Library 1^ 



Publications 13 



Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum 14 



2. Report on the National Gallery of Art 25 



3. Report on the National Collection of Fine Arts 38 



4. Report on the Freer Gallery of Art 48 



5. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 60 



6. Report on the International Exchange Service 93 



7. Report on the National Zoological Park 102 



8. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 121 



9. Report on the National Air Museum 126 



10. Report on the Canal Zone Biological Area 141 



11. Report on the library 148 



12. Report on publications 152 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 159 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



Science, art, and education, by R. E. Gibson 169 



Recent progress in astronomical photography, by C. E, Kenneth Mees — 205 



Radioisotopes — New keys to knowledge, by Paul C. Aebersold 219 



The push-button factory, by Frank K. Shallenberger 241 



The science of musical instruments, by E. G. Richardson 253 



Genetics and the world today, by Curt Stern 263 



Climate and race, by Carleton Coon 277 



Vegetation management for rights-of-way and roadsides, by Frank E. 



Egler 299 



Applied systematics: The usefulness of scientific names of animals and 



plants, by Waldo L. Schmitt 323 



The geological history and evolution of insects, by F. M. Carpenter 339 



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