REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 21 



of the Mu.semii lloport for 1897, being ji ineinorial volume of 

 Dr. G. Brown Ofoode. 



In addition to the precodino- publications l)y the Institution 

 proper a considerable number of works, chiefly on bioh^gical 

 topics, have been added to the Museum series. The Bureau 

 of Ethnology completed the Seventeenth Report, which has 

 been considerabh' delayed in publication, and progress was 

 made on the P^ighteenth and Nineteenth reports. 



The Secretary during the year transmitted to Congress the 

 Annual Repoil of the American Historical Association for the 

 year 1000, and also the Third Report of the National Society 

 of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 



LIBRARY. 



It will be remembered that the Institution, ])esides its 

 deposit in the Library of Congress, has retained in its own 

 building a limited num])er of scientific periodicals, together 

 with a small collection known as the ""Secretary's library," 

 dealing principally with works of art and pure literature, 

 and a still more limited one of books furnishing interesting 

 reading for the employees of the Institution, which is desig- 

 nated as the "Employees' library." 



The detailed report of the librarian will be found later, 

 but he states that there have been added during the year over 

 80,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, exclusive of the libra- 

 ries of the National Museum and the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, but including all other branches. Of the acces- 

 sions, by far the greater part were assigned to the Smithsonian 

 deposit in the Library of Congress. 



a journa] written by Count D'Herisson, who was on the staff of the French 

 general during the Anglo-French expedition to China in 1860 and an eye- 

 witness of the extraordinary scenes he describes. It appears to have 

 entirely escaped attention during the late crisis, although it has an inter- 

 esting l)earing on recent events and illustrates in a curious manner how 

 history repeats itself. 



Aeronautics, whicli oidy in the last decade has been growing to be con- 

 sidered a science, has several articles devoted to it by M. Janssen, Lord 

 Rayleigh, Secretary Langley, and others. 



Among the thirty or more other articles there may be mentioned, as 

 illustrating the variety of the subjects treated, papers on malaria and the 

 transnnssion of yellow fever, by Surgeon-General Sternberg; an essay on 

 Huxley, by Professor Brooks, of Johns Hopkins, and a paper on so practi- 

 cal a subject as incandest'ent mantles. 



