CONTENTS. 



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



Congress in 



Contents of the report v 



List of plates vii 



General subjects of the annual report ix 



Officials of the Institution and its branches x 



REPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 



The Smithsonian Institution 1 



The Establishment 1 



The Board of Regents 1 



General considerations 2 



Finances 5 



Researches and explorations: 



Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory 7 



Studies in Cambrian geology and paleontology 8 



Geological survey of Panama 9 



Biological expeditions in Africa 9 



Explorations in Borneo 10 



Lyman Siberian expedition 11 



Anthropological studies in Siberia and Mongolia 12 



Biological survey of Panama Canal Zone 12 



Anthropological studies in Peru 13 



Researches under the Hodgkins Fund 13 



Smithsonian Table at Naples Zoological Station 14 



The Harriman Trust Fund 14 



American School of Archeology in China 15 



Publications 15 



Library 19 



Archives 20 



Langley medal 21 



Langley memorial tablet 22 



Congresses and celebrations 22 



George Washington Memorial Building 24 



National Museum 26 



Bureau of American Ethnology 28 



International Exchanges 30 



National Zoological Park 31 



Astrophysical Observatory 32 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 33 



Necrology 34 



Appendix 1. Report on the United States National Museum 36 



2. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 44 



3. Report on the International Exchanges 63 



4. Report on the National Zoological Park 76 



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