REPORT 



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S. P. L^ISTQLEY. 



SECRETARY OF THE S ]\I I T H S O N T A N INSTITUTION, 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 3(1, 189}). 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Indltution. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to present herewith mj^ customary 

 report, showing- the operations of the Institution during the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1899, including the work placed under its direction by 

 Congress in the U. S. National Museum, the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, 

 and the Astrophysical Observator3^ 



Follownig the precedent of several years, I have in the body of this 

 report given a general account of the aflfairs of the Institution and its 

 bureaus, while the appendix presents more detailed statements by the 

 persons in direct charge of the different branches of the work. Inde- 

 pendently of this, the operations of the National Museum are fully 

 treated in a separate volume of the Smithsonian Report, and the report 

 of the work of the Bureau of American Ethnology constitutes a vol- 

 ume prepared under the supervision of the Director of that Bureau. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



I have to record two changes in the membership of the Establish- 

 ment during the year» caused b}" the resignation of the Secretary of 

 State, William R. Day, and the Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius 

 N. Bliss, who were succeeded bv the Hon. John Hay and the Hon. 



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