Special Session. [ SENATE. ] Miscellaneous. 



March, IS-'A. No. 1. 



FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BOARD OF REGENTS 



OF 



THE S3IITHS0IIAI INSTITUTIOK, 



TO THE 



SENATE AND HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES, 



showing the 



OPERATIONS, F.XPC.NDITURCS, AND CONDITION OF THE INSTITUTION, 



DURING THE Yf:AR J850. 



March 1, 1S51, 



Read. 



March?, 1851. 



Ordered, that the Ilepnrt of the Smithsonian Institution be printed; and that three thousajid 



additional copies lie printed — one thousand copies of wliich for llie 



use of the Smithsonian Institii'U'ais. 



WASHINGTON 

 1851. 



