REPORT OF A8SISTANT SECRETARY. 17 



IS!!;"), were more directly under the ;nisi»i('es of the Anthr()i)()h),uieul and 

 Geological .societies, future courses will doubtless embrace tlie work of 

 other sections as v/ell. The subjects ol' the lectures for this year will 

 be found in Appendix vii. 



The following table indicates the number and dates. of Saturday 

 lectures since 1882: 



Tear. 



Date of first and last lecture. j jgp^ J,pgg 



1882 March 11, April 29 8 



1883 January 13, March 31 , 12 



1884 Januarys, April 20 17 



1885 February 7, May 2 12 



1880 March 0, May 8 10 



1887 ' March 12, May 7 12 



1888 1 Fohruary 18, May 5 12 



1889 ' March 9, May 11 10 



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1890 February 1 . April 3 ' 10 



1891 1 



1892 [ 



1893 March 25, May 13 8 



1894 February 17, May 2G 15 



1895 1 February23, April 27 10 



Total ! 135 



COTTON STATES AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AT ATLANTA, GA. 



By the act of Congress, approved August 8, 1894, provision was made 

 for a Government exhibit at the Cotton States and International Expo- 

 sition to be held at Atlanta from September 18 to December 31, 1895. 

 The sum of $150,000 was appropriated, with the addition of $50,000 for 

 the erection of a building. Dr. Charles W. Dabney, jr., was made chair- 

 man of the Government board of management. The sum of $22,000 

 was allotted to the Smithsonian Institution and. the National Museum, 

 of which $10,500 is available for the preparation of exhibits. At the 

 close of the fiscal year this work was well under Avay, exhibits being 

 in course of preparation in the following departments : Mammals, birds, 

 marine invertebrates, comparative anatomy, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, 

 insects, paleontology, minerals, geology, botany, ethnology, and pre- 

 historic anthropology. The technological collections were also repre- 

 sented, as well as the sections of materia medica, oriental antiquities 

 and religious ceremonials. 



An extended account of the participation of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion in this Exposition, including a descrii)tion of the exhibits to be pre- 

 pared by the National Museum, will be published in the Eeport of the 

 Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890. Not only the 

 Museum, but all the other dependencies of the Institution, will prepare 

 exhibits, viz, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau of Inter- 

 national Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- 



