REPORT 
OF THE 
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
CHARLES D. WALCOTT 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING FUNE 30, 1914. 
To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: 
GrnTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit herewith a report on the 
operations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, including work placed by Congress 
under the direction of the Board of Regents in the United States 
National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Interna- 
tional Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical 
Observatory, and the United States Bureau of the International 
Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 
The general report reviews the affairs of the Institution proper 
and briefly summarizes the operations of its several branches, while 
the appendices contain detailed reports by the assistant secretary 
and others directly in charge of various activities. The reports on 
operations of the National Museum and the Bureau of American 
Ethnology will also be published as independent volumes. 
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 
THE ESTABLISHMENT. 
The Smithsonian Institution was created an establishment by act 
of Congress approved August 10, 1846. Its statutory members are 
the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Chief 
Justice, and the heads of the executive departments. 
THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 
The Board of Regents consists of the Vice President and the 
Chief Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three Mem- 
bers of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, 
and six citizens, “two of whom shall be resident in the city of Wash- 
ington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no 
two of them of the same State.” 
In regard to the personnel of the board, it becomes my sad duty 
to record the death on December 22, 1913, of Representative Irvin 
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