REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 29 
presented a brief tribute to that great man of science which was 
afterwards published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 
Aberdeen anniversary, etc—Prof. F. W. Clarke represented the 
Institution on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the 
Aberdeen University, October 20, 1906. At the request of the Depart- 
ment of State, the Institution recommended as delegates of the Gov- 
ernment to the International Zoological Congress, to be held in Bos- 
ton in August, 1907, Mr. Richard Rathbun, Dr. Theodore Gill, Dr. 
W. H. Dall, Dr. F. W. True, Mr. Leonhard Stejneger, and Dr. Har- 
rison G. Dyar. The Secretary attended the inauguration of the Car- 
negie Institute at Pittsburg, April 11-13, 1907. Mr. Arnold Hague 
was appointed to represent the Institution at the centenary of the 
Geological Society of London, to take place September 19, 1907, and 
Prof. Simon Newcomb has accepted the designation to represent the 
Institution at the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians, 
to be held at Rome April 6-11, 1908. 
Prize essay on fisheries——In response to an invitation from the 
International Fishery Congress, the fourth session of which is to be 
held in Washington in September, 1908, an allotment of $200 has 
been made from the Smithsonian fund as a prize for the best article 
on the international regulation of the fisheries of the high seas, their 
history, objects and results. It is announced that any person, asso- 
ciation, or company may compete for the various prizes to be awarded 
in connection with this congress by complying with the published 
conditions which govern the competition, as issued from the office of 
the general secretary of the congress, Dr. H. M. Smith, of the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Improvement and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds.—The sun- 
dry civil act approved March 4, 1907, contained an appropriation of 
$3,000 for the improvement, care, and maintenance of the Smith- 
sonian grounds, and also an appropriation of $5,000 for resurfacing 
the asphalt roadways in the grounds. 
California Academy of Sciences.—As stated in the previous report, 
the good offices of the Institution were tendered and accepted by the 
California Academy of Sciences for the purpose of aiding it in re- 
placing its library and collection destroyed by the earthquake and 
fire of April, 1906. In the report of the Bureau of International Ex- 
changes it is noted that upward of 7,000 valuable publications were 
secured abroad and forwarded to the academy, and not all of the cor- 
respondents of the academy have yet responded to the circular. The 
Institution also forwarded without cost to the academy very consid- 
erable collections of books from individuals and institutions in the 
