CONTENTS. VII 



Pas->. 



Rkpout of the Executive Committee for the year 1881 KiT 



Condition of the funds January 1, iyS2 Iij7 



Receipts for the year lijT 



Expenditures for the year 1G8 



Estimates for the year 1882 li lO 



National Museum appropriations by Congress Id',) 



Appropriations for Ethnology, and for Exchanges 171 



Eepout of the National Museuivi Building Commission for 1881 173 



Report of the Architects of the National Museum building for 1881 177 



Acts and Resolutions of Congress relative to the Smithsonian Institution 



and National Museum \-'l 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



I. — Record of recent scientific progress 189 



Introduction, by S. F. Baird 180 



Astronomy, by E. S. Holden 11)1 



Meteorology, etc., by Cleveland Abbe ••J31 



Physics, by G. F. Barker '3'^'^ 



Chemistry, by G. F. Barker MSI 



Botany, by W. G. Farlow ?,9l 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill 409 



Anthropology, by O. T. Mason 499 



II. — Miscellaneous papers 537 



Miscellaneous papers relating to Anthropology b'27 



Ab8tra.cts from Anthropological correspondence G81 



Tuckahoe or Indian bread, by J. Howard Gore 687 



History of the Smithsonian system of Exchanges, by George H. Boehmer. 703 



Index to the volume 811 



