VI CONTENTS. 



The Smithsonian Institution — Continued. Page. 



Library 11 



Hodgkins fund 12 



Correspondence 16 



Miscellaneous : 



Naples table 17 



Seal of tbe Institution 18 



World's Columbian Exposition 18 



Delegates to universities and learned societies 19 



Woodcuts, etc 19 



Arcbi ves 20 



Assignment of rooms 20 



Toner lecture fund 20 



Tbe Hamilton fund 20 



Statue of Professor Baird 21 



American Historical Association 21 



United States National Museum 21 



Bureau of American Etbnology 28 



International exchanges 32 



United States National Zoological Park 34 



Astro-j>hy8ical Observatory 39 



Appendixes : 



Appendix I. The United States National Museum 41 



II. Report of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology 44 



III. Report of the Curator of Exchanges 58 



IV. Report of the Superintendent of the National Zoological Park . 68 

 V. Report upon the Astro-physical Observatory 75 



VI. Report of the Librarian 79 



VII . Report of the Editor 83 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



On the Magnitude of the Solar System, by William Harkness 93 



Schiaparelli's latest views regarding Mars, by William H. Pickering 113 



Light and Electricity, according to Maxwell and Hertz, by M. Poincar6 129 



The Henry, by T. C. Mendenhall 141 



The Age of Electricity, by M. Mascart 153 



Terrestrial Magnetism, by Prof. A. W. Rucker 173 



Photographic Photometry, by M. J. Janssen 191 



The Splash of a Drop and Allied Phenomena, by Prof. A. M. Worthington 197 



The Waste and Conservation of Plant Food, by Harvey W. Wiley 213 



Four Days' Observations at the Summit of Mont Blanc, by M. J. Janssen 2.37 



Weather Making, Ancient and Modern, by Mark W. Harrington 249 



Vai»iati(m of Latitude, by J. K. Rees 271 



The Development of the Cartography of America up to the Year 1570, by Dr. 



Sophus Ruge w 281 



Antarctica : A Vanished Austral Land, by Henry O. Forbes 297 



Tlio Promotion of Further Discovery in the Arctic and the Antarctic Regions, 



by Clements R. Markham 317 



The Physical Condition of the Ocean, by Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, R. N 343 



The Origin of the Oldest Fossils and the Discovery of the Bottom of the 



Ocean, by W. K. Brooks 359 



The Relations of Physiology to Chemistry and Morphology, by Giulio Fano. . 377 



