LETTER 



FROM THE 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



AC COM PAN YING 



The annual report of the Board of Regents of that Instiiution for the year 



1881. 



May 16, 1882.— Ordered to be printed. 



Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, March 1, 1882. 

 Gentlemen: In behalf of the Board of Regents, I have the honor 

 to submit to the Congress of the United States the annual report of the 

 operations, expenditures, and condition of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for the year 1881. 



I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Spencee, F. Baied, 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Hon. David Davis, 



President of the United States Senate, and 

 Hon. J. Warren Keifer, 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



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