CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Letter from the Secretary submitting the annual report of the Regents 



to Congress hi 



Contents of the report v 



List of plates vn 



General subjects of the annual report ix 



Officials of the institution and its branches xi 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



The Establishment 1 



The Board of Regents 1 



General considerations 2 



Finances 4 



Researches and explorations : 



Geological explorations in the Rocky Mountains 5 



Researches on the structure of trilobites 7 



Geological work in the Appalachian and Ohio Valleys 7 



Geological work in Maryland 7 



Geological work in Central Kentucky 8 



Grasses of the Adirondack and White Mountains 9 



Anthropological studies on Old American Families 10 



The mountaineers of Tennessee 10 



The vanishing Indian 11 



Ethnological explorations in Colorado and Utah 12 



National Parks Educational Committee 13 



Publications 15 



Library 16 



National Museum 16 



Bureau of American Ethnology 19 



National Zoological Park 19 



Astrophysical Observatory 20 



International Exchanges 22 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 22 



Necrology . 23 



Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum 25 



2. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 43 



3. Report on the International Exchanges 58 



4. Report on the National Zoological Park 66 



5. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 82 



6. Report on the library 89 



7. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature- 94 



8. Report on publications 97 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND REGENTS. 



Report of Executive Committee 103 



Proceedings of Board of Regents 107 



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