18 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



With a view to profiting by tLe judgment of our representative biolo- 

 gists in administering the affairs of the Naples table, I requested, at au 

 early date, tlie president of the National Academy of Sciences, the 

 president of the Society of American Naturalists, the president of the 

 American Morphological Society, and the president of the Association 

 of American Anatomists to nominate each one member of. an advisory 

 committee, the personnel of which is as follows, I having designated 

 Doctor Billings, as chairman, and Doctor Stiles, as secretary of the 

 committee : 



Advisory committee, Naples table. — Dr. J. S. Billings, U. S. A., 

 director of the United States Army Medical Museum, chairman; Dr. E. 

 B. Wilson, j)rofessor of zoology, Columbia University; Dr. J. A. Ryder, 

 professor of embryology, University of Pennsylvania; Dr.C.W. Stiles, 

 zoologist, United States Department of Agriculture, secretary, 



1 am indebted to this committee for valuable aid in examining the 

 testimonials accompanying applications for the occuftancy of the table 

 and for recommendations with regard to appointments, as well as for 

 the consideration of the various questions in connection with the assign- 

 ment of the table, to which I have asked attention. The contract 

 giving to the Institution the tenure of the Naples table for the term 

 of three years was given in full in my last year's report. 



Seal of the Institution. — A suitable steel die has been prepared for 

 the new seal of the Institution, designed by Augnstus St. Gaudens, and 

 formally adopted by the Board of Regents at their meeting of January 

 25, 1893, and the new seal has been affixed, when required, to formal 

 j)apers since February, 1894, though the first use of the design was 

 upon the circulars concerning the Hodgkins prizes, issued under date 

 of March 31, 1893. 



The World's Columbian Exposition. — The display made by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, including the National Museum and the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, embraced collections prepared by the following departments 

 of the Museum : Ethnology, i)hysical geoh)gy, mammals, birds, reptiles, 

 fishes, insects, marine invertebrates, comparative anatomy, minerals, 

 prehistoric anthropology, historical collections, a collection of objects 

 illustrating religious ceremonial, graphic arts, nuisical instruments, 

 animal jn^oducts, and a special exhibit of domesticated animals. In 

 addition, an exhibit illustrating methods of aboriginal quarrying was 

 prepared by Mr. William H. Holmes, a display of Japanese potteries 

 was installed by Mr. Hieromich Shugio, and an exhibit of early elec- 

 trical apparatus, employed by Prof. Joseph Henry in his experiments 

 which led to the discovery of the electric telegraph, was also prepared. 

 Complete sets of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and 

 of the National Museum were exhibited, together with those of the 

 American Historical Association. 

 . These collections are fully described in the report for 1893 of the 



