REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 

 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



C. G. ABBOT 



FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1935 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit herewith my report 

 showing the activities and condition of the Smithsonian Institution 

 and the Government bureaus under its administrative charge during 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1935. The first 12 pages contain a 

 summary account of the affairs of the Institution, and appendixes 

 1 to 10 give more detailed reports of the operations of the National 

 Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchanges, 

 the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, the 

 Division of Radiation and Organisms, the Smithsonian Library, 

 and of the publications issued under the direction of the Institution. 

 On page 81 is the financial report of the executive committee of 

 the Board of Regents. 



OUTSTANDING EVENTS 



Despite the continued curtailment of funds available for the Insti- 

 tution's work, notably the drastic reduction in appropriations for 

 printing the scientific series normally issued by the National Museum 

 and the Bureau of American Ethnology, marked progress has been 

 made along several lines. Study of periodicities in the weather, 

 related to similar periodicities found in the variation of the solar 

 radiation, has progressed to the point where test weather forecasts 

 have been made for 30 stations in the United States for the years 

 1934, 1935, and 1936. The forecasts for 1934 gave satisfactory agree- 

 ment with the actual weather conditions for about two-thirds of the 

 stations. Reductions of the solar observations for a year at the new 

 Mount St. Katherine station indicate that they will be quite as excel- 

 lent and numerous as those of the best Smithsonian station at Monte- 

 zuma, Chile. John A. Roebling has generously provided funds for 

 the continued occupation of Mount St. Katherine till 1938. 



Special attention was given to the problem of the so-called Folsom 

 man, a people associated with the earliest known phase of aboriginal 



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