REPORT OF S. R LANGLEY, 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 

 FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1894. 



To the Board of Bef/ents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: I have the lionor to submit herewith a report of the 

 operations of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 

 1894, including the work pkiced by Congress under its supervision in 

 the National Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Bureau of Inter- 

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

 physical Observator3^ 



In the body of the report I have given briefly a general account of 

 the affairs of the Institution and of its bureaus for the year, reserving 

 for the appendix the more detailed and statistical reports from the 

 officers in charge of the difterent branches of work. 



The full report upon the National Museum by the assistant secre- 

 tary, T)r. G. ]^rown Goode, occupies a separate volume. (Report of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, 1894.) 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 

 By act of Congress, approved by the President March 4, 1894, section 

 5579 of the Revised Statutes was amended to read as follows: 



That the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the 

 heads of Executive Departments are hereby constituted an establish- 

 ment by the name of the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and 

 diffusion of knowledge among men, and by that name shall be known and 

 have perpetual succession with the powers, limitations, and restrictions 

 hereinafter contained, and no other. 



As now organized the Smithsonian Establishment consists of the 

 following ex officio members : 



Grover Cleveland, President of the United States. 

 Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice-President of the United States. 

 Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 



the United States. 

 Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State. 

 John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury. 

 Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. 

 Richard Olney, Attorney-General. 

 Wilson S. Bissell, Postmaster- General. 

 Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. 

 Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior. 

 J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. 



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