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National Zoological Park $100,000 



Bridge over Rock Creek, National Zoological Park 20,000 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 7, 500 



Total 627,000 



In addition to the above specific amounts to be disbursed by the 

 Institution, there was inchided under the general appropriation for 

 public printing and binding an allotment of $74,900 to cover the cost 

 C>f printing and binding the annual report and other Government 

 publications issued by the Institution, and to be disbursed by the 

 Public Printer. 



RESEARCHES AND EXPLORATIONS. 



The Smithsonian Institution has continued to carry on field work 

 in various lines throughout the world by means of small allotments 

 from its funds. It has also accomplished a great deal in the way of 

 exploration and research through the generosity of frienas of the 

 Institution, who have contributed funds for special work or provided 

 opportunities for participation in explorations which they had under- 

 taken personally or through the aid of others. Each year, however, 

 the Institution is obliged to forego opportunities for important in- 

 vestigations through lack of sufficient funds. 



I can here only briefly mention some of the explorations and re- 

 searches in progress during the past year. Accounts of activities 

 connected with the Astrophysical Observatory, the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, and the United States National Museum are given in 

 other parts of this report by those in direct charge of those branches 

 of the Institution. 



LANGLEy AERODYNAMICAL LABORATORY. 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents on May 1, 1913, the follow- 

 ing resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas the Smithsonian Institution possesses a laboratory for the study of 



questions relating to aerodynamics, which has been closed since the death of 



its director, the late Dr. S. P. Langley, formerly Secretary of the Smithsonian 



Institution; and 

 Whereas it is desirable to foster and continue, in the Institution with which 



he was connected, the aerodynamical researches which he inaugurated ; 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution hereby 

 authorizes the Secretary of the Institution, with the advice and approval of the 

 executive committee, to reopen the Smithsonian Institution laboratory for the 

 study of aerodynamics and take such steps as in his judgment may be necessary 

 to provide for the organization and administration of the laboratory on a per- 

 manent basis. 



That the aerodynamic laboratory of the Institution shall be known as the 

 Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory. 



That the functions of the laboratory shall be the study of the problems of 

 aerodromics, particularly those of aerodynamics, with such research and ex- 



