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 Letter from the Secretary submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to 



Congress m 



Contents of the report v 



List of plates vii 



General subjects of the annual report ix 



Officials of the Institution and its branches , xi 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



The Establishment 1 



The Board of Regents 1 



Finances 2 



Researches and explorations: 



Geological explorations in the Rocky Mountains 5 



Stratigraphic studies in central Tennessee 6 



Fossil Echinoderms in western New York 6 



Vertebrate fossils in Montana 7 



Coral investigations 7 



Borneo and Celebes expeditions 7 



Expeditions to the Far East 7 



Bird studies in Illinois 8 



Henderson expedition in Cuba 8 



Botanical explorations in South America 9 



Anthropological researches in Africa and Siberia 10 



The natural history of man 10 



Island of Timor expedition 12 



Clearing of fog by electrical precipitation 12 



Research Corporation 12 



Harriman Trust Fund 13 



Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory 14 



Publications 15 



Library 16 



Lucy T. and George W. Poore Fund 17 



The Freer Collection 17 



National Museum 20 



Bureau of American Ethnology 22 



Astrophysical Observatory 23 



International Exchanges 24 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 24 



National Zoological Park 25 



Necrology 26 



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