CONTENTS 



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List of officials v 



General statement 1 



The Establishment 4 



The Board of Regents 4 



Finances 5 



Visitors 6 



Lectures 6 



Bio-Sciences Information Exchange 7 



Summary of the year's activities of the Institution 7 



Reports of branches of the Institution: 



United States National Museum 11 



Bureau of American Ethnology 40 



Astrophysical Observatory 68 



National Collection of Fine Arts 82 



Freer Gallery of Art 98 



National Air Museum__ 111 



National Zoological Park 125 



Canal Zone Biological Area 155 



International Exchange Service 163 



National Gallery of Art_ 172 



Report on the library 185 



Report on publications 189 



Report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents 196 



GENERAL APPENDIX 



Science, technology, and society, by L. R. Hafstad 207 



United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1807-1957, by Elliott B. 



Roberts 221 



Cosmic rays from the sun, by Thomas Gold 233 



Meteors, by Fred L. Whipple 239 



The development of the planetarium in the United States, by Joseph Miles 



Chamberlain 261 



The development of radio astronomy, by Gerald S. Hawkins 279 



Jet streams, by R. Lee 293 



Pollen and spores and their use in geology, by Estella B. Leopold and 



Richard A. Scott 303 



The influence of man on soil fertility, by G. V. Jacks 325 



The land and people of the Guajira Peninsula, by Raymond E. Crist 339 



The nature of viruses, cancer, genes, and life, by Wendell M. Stanley 357 



Mystery of the red tide, by F. G. Walton Smith 371 



The return of the vanishing musk oxen, by Hartley H. T. Jackson __ 381 



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