20 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 
The World’s Columbian Exposition—Mention was made in the last 
report of the provision made by Congress for holding an exposition in 
the city of Chicago in 1893 for the purpose of celebrating the four hun- 
dredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Colum- 
bus. Dr. G. Brown Goode was upon my nomination appointed by the 
President the representative of the Smithsonian Institution and the 
National Museum upon the Government Board of Managers and Con- 
trol. During the latter part of the year the Treasury Department de- 
cided that between $30,000 and $40,000 were available for expendi- 
ture in connection with the preparation of the Government exhibits. 
This sum was apportioned by the Board among the executive depart- 
ments, including the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum 
and the Fish Commission: the Smithsonian Institution, including the 
National Museum and the Bureau of Ethnology, receiving about 
$6,000. This amount is of course entirely inadequate, except as aftord- 
ing the means of making a commencement, and would hardly suf- 
fice for the preparation of a satisfactory exhibit from any one depart- 
ment in the Museum. As soon as this money became available, how- 
ever, several of the curators in the National Museum commenced to 
prepare plans for the exhibits of their departments, and a small force 
of taxidermists and mechanics was engaged. Mr. R. Edward Earll 
was appointed chief special agent in April, and will act as the executive 
officer under the direction of the representative of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 
Ethnological researches among the North American Indians has been 
continued by the Smithsonian Institution in compliance with acts of 
Congress, during the year 189091, under the direction of Maj. J. W. 
Powell, who is also the Director of the U. 8. Geological Survey. 
The work of the Bureau of Ethnology has been conducted during the 
year in accordance with the system before reported upon and explained. 
A noteworthy feature of it is that the officers who as authors prepare 
the publications of the Bureau personally gather the material for them 
in the field, supplementing it by study of all the connected literature 
and by the consequent comparison of all ascertained facts. The contin- 
uance of the work for a number of years by the same zealous observers 
and students, who freely interchange their information and-opinions, has 
resulted in their training with the acuteness of specialists, corrected and 
generalized by the factors of other correlative specialties. 
At the close of the last fiseal year specific exploration of the mound 
areaby the United States ceased, except so far as it was found necessary to 
correct errors and supply omissions. A large part of the results of the 
work of several past years is in print, though not yet issued. <A plan 
of general archzologic field work has been practically initiated by a 
systematic exploration of the tidewater regions of the District of Colum- 
