REPORT 
OF THE 
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
CHARLES Db. WALCOTT, 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1907. 
To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit a report showing the oper- 
ations of the Institution during the year ending June 30, 1907, 
including the work placed under its direction by Congress in the 
United States National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
the International Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astro- 
physical Observatory, the Regional Bureau of the International 
Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and the excavations on the Casa 
Grande Reservation. 
In the body of this report there is given a general account of the 
affairs of the Institution, while the appendix presents a more detailed 
statement by those in direct charge of the different branches of the 
work. Independently of this the operations of the National Museum 
and the Bureau of American Ethnology are fully treated in separate 
volumes. The scientific work of the Astrophysical Observatory, 
covering its researches for the past five years, will be described in 
Volume IT of the Annals of the Observatory. 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
THH ESTABLISHMENT. 
By act of Congress approved August 10, 1846, the Smithsonian 
Institution was created an Establishment. Its statutory members 
are “the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the 
heads of the Executive Departments.” 
As organized on June 30, 1907, the establishment consisted of the 
following ex officio members: 
THeopore Roosevetr, President of the United States. 
Cuaries W. Farrpanks, Vice-President of the United States. 
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