20 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Archives. — A room on the fourth floor, about 20 by 22 feet, iii the 

 east win^ of the Smithsonian building, has been specially fitted up for 

 the arrangement of the valuable and somewhat voluminous archives of 

 the Institution, in a form where they can be most readily consulted. 

 Twenty-nine cases of shelves and sets of drawers are already largely 

 tilled with volumes of letters received and press copies of letters sent, 

 with indexes, drawings, diagrams, photographs, and plans of the build- 

 ings and grounds, original records of proceediugs of the Board of 

 Kegents, a full set of the publications of the Institution, copies of 

 original papers by the Secretaries of the Institution, etc., and space 

 has been provided for the anticipated wants of several years to come. 



Considerable progress has been made in the classification and index- 

 ing of these papers under the new arrangement. 



Assignment of rooms. — A room in the basement of the east wing, 

 which has been specially fitted up with piers for pendulum experi- 

 ments, and connected by telegraph, through the Western Union Tele- 

 graph Company's oflice, with the United States IsTaval Observatory, is 

 still reserved for the occasional use of the officers of the United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Toner lecture fund. — In 1872 Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, con- 

 veyed about $3,000 in real and personal proi)erty to five trustees, con- 

 sisting of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Surgeon- 

 General of the United States Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, 

 the president of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, insti- 

 tuting thereby "The Toner lecture fund." Ninety per cent of the inter- 

 est of the fund is to be applied for at least two annual memoirs or essays 

 by different individuals relative to some branch of medical science, to 

 be read in the city of W^ashington, under the name of "The Toner lec- 

 tures, each of these memoirs or lectures to contain some new truth fully 

 established by experiment or observation." 



As these lectures are intended to increase and diffuse knowledge, 

 several of them have been accepted for publication in the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections. The first of the course was by Dr. J. J. 

 Woodward, "On the structure of cancerous tumors," and was printed 

 in 1873. Nine other lectures, by Dr. C. E. Brown-Sequard, Dr. J. M. 

 Da Costa, Dr. W. Adams, Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, Dr. G. E. Waring, jr., 

 Dr. C. K. Mills, and Dr. Harrison Allen, have since been published by 

 the Institution, the last having appeared in 1890. 



The Hamilton fund. — In 1874 the Institution received $1,000 from the 

 estate of James Hamilton, esq., of Carlisle, Pa., bequeathed in the fol- 

 lowing clause of his will : 



I give $1,000 to the Board of Eegents ot the Smithsonian Institution, 

 located at Washington, D. C, to be invested by said Kegents in some 

 safe fund, and the interest to be appropriated biennially by the secre- 

 taries, either in money or a medal, for such contribution, paper, or lec- 

 ture on any scientific or useful subject, as said secretaries may approve, 



