REPORT 



OF 



S. IP. LANGLEY, 



SECRETARY OE THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



FUR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1901, 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: 1 have the honor to present herewith my 

 report showing the operations of the Institution during the 

 year ending June 30, 1901, including the work placed under 

 its direction by Congress, in the United States National 

 Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Interna- 

 tional Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, and the 

 Astrophy sical Observatory . 



Following the precedent of several years, I have given, in 

 the body of this report, a general account of the affairs of 

 the Institution and its bureaus, while the appendix presents 

 more detailed statements b} r the persons in direct charge of 

 the different branches of the work. Independent^ of this, 

 the operations of the National Museum are fully treated in a 

 separate volume of the Smithsonian Report, and the Report 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology constitutes a volume 

 prepared under the supervision of the Director of that Bureau. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



By act of Congress approved August 10, 1846, the Smith- 

 sonian Institution was created an Establishment. Its statutory 

 members are the President, the Vice-President, the Chief 

 Justice of the United States, and the heads of the Executive 

 Departments. The prerogative of the Establishment is "the 

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